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Building human or criminal capital? : school peer effects on future offending

Larsen, Britt Østergaard; Kristensen, Nicolai - 2017

important and significant nonlinear peer effects. Students who enter a program with new peers who have a high crime propensity … education. However, students with a history of repeated offenses, who enter a program with new peers with a low crime propensity … schoolmates with prior charges. Yet, our study also shows that a new low-crime peer group in upper secondary education can have a …

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Social Diversity and Bridging Identity

García‐Alonso, María D. C. - 2020

We investigate within a model of cultural transmission how policies or shocks that affect social diversity within a population affect social cohesion and segregation. We develop the concept of `bridging identity', an individual trait that: (i) positively affects utility in culturally diverse...

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Social diversity and bridging identity

García-Alonso, María del Carmen; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018

We investigate within a model of cultural transmission the conditions under which increased social diversity within a population - e.g. due to the inflow of immigrants - raise the potential for conflict as opposed to harmonious social diversity. Drawing on evidence from psychological studies, we...

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The role of social identity and perceived discrimination in human capital formation : evidence from India

Gupta, Isha - 2022

social discrimination is also found to be a significant contributor to the gaps in cognitive outcomes and parental investment … across social groups. While parents' perceived social discrimination is associated with lower parental investment throughout …

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Social interaction and the spatial concentration of criminality

Bernasco, Wim; Graaff, Thomas de; Rouwendal, Jan; … - 2012 - Draft verion

It has often been observed that there is substantial spatial variation in criminality, i.e. criminality clusters in neighborhoods. Differences in neighborhood characteristics are one possible reason, social interactions another. In this paper we use detailed data on the residential location of...

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Altruism in society : evidence from a natural experiment involving commuters

Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2011

stop (give way) for others, we find evidence of (i) gender discrimination by both men and women, with women discriminating … ; social discrimination ; status ; peer effects ; commuters …