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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376243
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Understanding Peer Effects : On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
Feld, Jan - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012818
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Econometric models of fertility
Miranda, Alfonso; Trivedi, Pravin K. - 2020
This paper reviews some key contributions to econometric analysis of human fertility in the last 20 years, with special … fertility. Structural models that embed causal mechanisms explicitly are better suited for this objective. We start with a … description of the subject matter, including a brief review of existing theories of fertility behaviour and a detailed discussion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237902
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Econometric models of fertility
Miranda, Alfonso; Trivedi, Pravin K. - 2020
This paper reviews some key contributions to econometric analysis of human fertility in the last 20 years, with special … fertility. Structural models that embed causal mechanisms explicitly are better suited for this objective. We start with a … description of the subject matter, including a brief review of existing theories of fertility behaviour and a detailed discussion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229115
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The Econometrics of Early Childhood Human Capital and Investments
Cunha, Flavio; Nielsen, Eric Reed; Williams, Benjamin - 2021
This article reviews recent developments in the econometrics of early childhood human capital and investments. We start with a discussion about the lack of cardinality in test scores, the reasons it matters for empirical research on human capital, and the approaches researchers have used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216017
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Estimation of class-size effects, using "Maimonides' rule" and other instruments : the case of French junior high schools
Gary-Bobo, Robert; Mahjoub, Mohamed-Badrane - In: Annals of economics and statistics 111/112 (2013), pp. 193-225
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Applied Statistics and Econometrics : Basic Topics and Tools with Gretl and R
Kivedal, Bjørnar Karlsen - 2024
1. Introduction 2 -- Start using Gretl and R 3 -- Basic Material 4 -- Hypothesis testing 5 -- Simple linear regression 6 -- Multiple regression 7 -- Regression using dummy variables 8 -- Non linear models 9 -- Time series analysis 10 -- Other statistical tools.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519030
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433073
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481528
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413206