We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and …

We investigate whether, how, and why individual education attainment depends on the educational attainment of … schoolmates. Specifically, using longitudinal data on students and their friends during the school years in a nationally … representative set of US schools, we consider the impact of different types of peers on education outcomes. We find that there are …

This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We … determinant of her level of activity. A standard deviation increase in the Katz-Bonacich centrality increases the pupil school … performance by more than 7 percent of one standard deviation. -- Centrality measure ; peer influence ; network structure ; school …