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 …

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 …

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects … criminal from each network that reduces total crime by the largest amount. Using longitudinal data, we are able to compare the … disappeared over time, we show that the theoretical predicted crime reduction is close to what is observed in the real world. We …

crime as well as peer effects that determine youth criminal activities. This paper explores these channels by examining … learning mechanisms. Peer maternal incarceration increases adolescent female criminal activities and reduces male crime and the …

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 …