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Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?

Hahn, Youjin; Islam, Asadul; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2017

We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and...

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Education Transmission and Network Formation

Boucher, Vincent; Del Bello, Carlo L.; Panebianco, Fabrizio - 2021

We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus … kids from different education backgrounds can be effective in reducing the education gap between them. …

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Neighborhood Effects in Education

Del Bello, Carlo L.; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2015

their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no …

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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2004

's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …

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Density, Social Networks and Job Search Methods: Theory and Application to Egypt

Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2004

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of the size and the quality of social networks on the probability to find a job. We first develop a theoretical model in which individuals are embedded within a network of social relationships. Workers can obtain information about jobs via employed...

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