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Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on … school level fixed effects. …
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I propose a novel way of identifying peer group effects by employing a regressiondiscontinuity design that makes use of the assignment mechanism of students into classes in Brazilian primary schools. I estimate a significant negative effect for students close to the cut-off point from being in...
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We study spatio-temporal variation of peer effects in rooftop photovoltaics adoption of households. Our investigation employs locational data on potential adopters and a geocoded data set of all grid-connected photovoltaic systems set up in Germany through 2010. The detailed locational data...
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This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisition using observational data. We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child's nearest geographical neighbors, into a production function of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh, India....
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, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …
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implications of the analytical framework. We conduct an empirical inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in …
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Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …
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withdraw children from school and to let them work more intensively. Using the exogenous character of the income variation as … an instrument allows to disentangle the pure effect of parental income from effects related to parental education, family … to raise schooling levels and to protect investment in children's education against transitory income shocks. Although …
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Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing … countries might advance school participation. In November, 2001 the Indian Supreme Court issued a remarkable interim order … directing errant Indian states to other children in government primary schools a warm school lunch. This paper uses this …
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. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most …
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