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Friendship network in the classroom : parents bias on peer effects
Landini, Fabio; Montinari, Natalia; Pin, Paolo; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 129 (2016), pp. 56-73
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Social interactions, mechanisms, and equilibrium : evidence from a model of study time and academic achievement
Conley, Timothy G.; Mehta, Nirav; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - 2015
We develop and estimate an equilibrium model of study time choices of students on a social network. We examine how network structure interacts with student characteristics to affect academic achievement. Due to data limitations, few papers examine the mechanisms through which peer effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518748
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Segregation in friendship networks
Martí, Joan de; Zenou, Yves - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 119 (2017) 3, pp. 656-708
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Social interactions, mechanisms, and equilibrium : evidence from a model of study time and academic achievement
Conley, Timothy G.; Mehta, Nirav; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - 2017
directly address potential sorting into friendships based on typically unobserved determinants of study time. We develop a …
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Friendship networks and political opinions : a natural experiment among future French politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2019
quarter of the mean difference. It likely works through a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes politically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038651
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Social groups and social network formation
Tarbush, Bassel; Teytelboym, Alexander - In: Games and economic behavior 103 (2017), pp. 286-312
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Social interactions, mechanisms, and equilibrium : evidence from a model of study time and academic achievement
Conley, Timothy G.; Mehta, Nirav; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - 2018
We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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Beyond connectivity : stock market participation in a network
Balakina, Olga; Bäckman, Claes; Parakhoniak, Anastasiia - 2024
What are the aggregate and distributional consequences of the relationship between an individual's social network and financial decisions? Motivated by several well-documented facts about the influence of social connections on financial decisions, we build and calibrate a model of stock market...
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Friendship networks and political opinions: a natural experiment among future French politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2020
gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes initially politically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390767
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Homophily and transmission of behavioral traits in social networks
Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2023
other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily … than 2,500 French high-school students, we find high levels of homophily across all ten behavioral traits that we study …. Notably, the extent of homophily depends on similarities in demographic characteristics, in particular with respect to gender …
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