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Exporters During the Trade Collapse: The (Surprising) Resiliency of the Small Exporter
Giri, Rahul; Seira, Enrique; Teshima, Kensuke - Banco de México - 2014
How did small exporters fare relative to large exporters during the 2008-09 crisis? Examining the performance of Mexican exporters reveals that the crisis did not make smaller exporters more likely to exit, grow less, or expand less their product line relative to larger exporters. Workhorse...
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Peer effects identified through social networks. Evidence from uruguayan schools.
de Melo, Gioia - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2012
This paper provides evidence on peer effects in standardized tests by exploiting a unique data set on social networks in Uruguayan primary schools. The identification method enables one to disentangle endogenous from contextual effects via instrumental variables that emerge naturally from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894936
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Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment
Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …
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Student Networks and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: The Strength of Strong Ties
Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education … in the fourth wave in 2007-2008 (when adult). We find that there are strong and persistent peer effects in education but …
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Do Classmate Effects Fade Out?
Fletcher, Jason; Ross, Stephen; Bifulco, Robert; Oh, … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2012
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that the positive...
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Do high school peers have persistent effects on college attainment and other life outcomes?
Bifulco, Robert; Fletcher, Jason M.; Oh, Sun Jung; … - In: Labour Economics 29 (2014) C, pp. 83-90
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that having more high...
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Do High School Peers Have Persistent Effects on College Attainment and Other Life Outcomes?
Bifulco, Robert; Fletcher, Jason; Oh, Sun Jung; Ross, … - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2014
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760372
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Do the Average Level and Dispersion of Socio-Economic Background Measures Explain France's Gap in PISA Scores?
Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
educational outcomes between countries. There is some evidence that, after controlling for education spending and the overall … contribuer aux différences de résultats scolaires entre pays. En contrôlant pour le niveau de dépenses d’éducation et de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276829
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Improving the Implementation and Effectiveness of Out-of-School-Time Tutoring
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Burch, Patricia; Good, Annalee; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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A theory of family education incentives and inequality
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
-sharing between the two generations, so that poor families experience higher agency costs, therefore inequality persists. …
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