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Building criminal capital behind bars : social learning in juvenile corrections
Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Pozen, David E. - 2003
This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same correctional facility have on each other's subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is based on data on over 8,000 individuals serving time in 169 juvenile correctional facilities during a two-year period in...
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Peer effects in language training for migrants
Sprietsma, Maresa; Pfeil, Lisa - 2015
We investigate the effect of peer group composition on language improvement in language classes for adults. Using unique survey data of migrants participating in an intensive language course in Germany, we find that the age and skill composition of groups affect skill acquisition as assessed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527127
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Beyond the average : peer heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education
Chakraborty, Tanika; Nottmeyer, Olga; Schüller, Simone; … - 2014
location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457394
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Rank effects in education : what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168737
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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040930
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Beyond the average : ethnic capital heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education
Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019
immigrants' location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a … achievements. Our estimates are unlikely to be confounded by the reflection problem since we study the effects of parental peers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161710
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Does education prevent job loss during downturns? : evidence from exogenous schools assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021
Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628840
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Gender Based Differences in Managerial Experience: The Case of Informal Firms in Rwanda
Kushnir, Khrystyna; Amin, Mohammad - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 3032-3049
The paper contributes to the literature on gender-based disparity in human capital by extending existing results on educational attainment to the number of years of experience that female vs. male managers have among informal or unregistered firms. Using the case of Rwanda, results show that the...
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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283117
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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...
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