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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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Peer effects identified through social networks. Evidence from uruguayan schools.
de Melo, Gioia - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2012
This paper provides evidence on peer effects in standardized tests by exploiting a unique data set on social networks in Uruguayan primary schools. The identification method enables one to disentangle endogenous from contextual effects via instrumental variables that emerge naturally from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894936
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Gender gaps in education : the long view
Evans, David K.; Akmal, Maryam; Jakiela, Pamela - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27
the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518120
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Educational inequality in Mozambique
Berg, Servaas van der; Maia, Carlos da; Burger, Cobus - 2017
In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152058
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Gender gaps in education: The long view
Evans, David K.; Akmal, Maryam; Jakiela, Pamela - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27
the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552470
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Educational inequality in Mozambique
van der Berg, Servaas; da Maia, Carlos; Burger, Cobus - 2017
In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151179
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Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education
Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022
We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a … theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by … peer inequality. Our results provide evidence on the role of inequality in peer groups for long-run educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296529
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Reference dependent aspirations and peer effects in education
Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022
We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a … theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by … peer inequality. Our results provide evidence on the role of inequality in peer groups for long-run educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471214