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Peer effects identified through social networks: Evidence from Uruguayan schools
de Melo, Gioia - 2014
This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392391
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Peer effects identified through social networks : evidence from Uruguayan schools
Melo, Gioia de - 2014
This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370135
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Exporters During the Trade Collapse: The (Surprising) Resiliency of the Small Exporter
Giri, Rahul; Seira, Enrique; Teshima, Kensuke - Banco de México - 2014
How did small exporters fare relative to large exporters during the 2008-09 crisis? Examining the performance of Mexican exporters reveals that the crisis did not make smaller exporters more likely to exit, grow less, or expand less their product line relative to larger exporters. Workhorse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784776
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Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment
Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816539
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Better together? : social networks in truancy and the targeting of treatment
Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785802
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Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment
Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854494
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How social ties affect peer-group effects: a case of university students
Poldin, Oleg; Valeeva, Dilyara; Yudkevich, Maria - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
Among the key issues of peer effects estimation is the correct identification of relevant peers. In this study, we explore how the individual performance of university students is influenced by characteristics and achievements of peers from individual’s social network. The analysis uses data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720438
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Student’s social ties and the choice of specialization
Poldin, Oleg; Yudkevich, Maria; Valeeva, Dilyara - In: Applied Econometrics 34 (2014) 2, pp. 80-94
We estimate the correlation between student’s choice of specialization and the choices of the students connected by social ties. We use data on students of Economics department at one of the Russian universities and show that the choice is linked with the choice of friends as well as study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186459
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Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour
Goux, Dominique; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric - 2014
At the end of middle school, many low achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disappointment and eventually lead them to dropout from high-school. Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achieving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333266
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Adjusting your dreams? : the effect of school and peers on dropout behaviour
Goux, Dominique; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric - 2014
At the end of middle school, many low achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disappointment and eventually lead them to dropout from high-school. Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achieving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010245945