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Non-cognitive peer effects in secondary education
Shure, Nikki - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 73 (2021), pp. 1-26
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Cognitive, socioemotional, and behavioural returns to college quality
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
personality. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college leads to improvements in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635655
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Cognitive, socioemotional and behavioral returns to college quality
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that enrolling in a selective college improves only females' exam scores. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641548
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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316054
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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313572
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A Bayesian analysis of e-cigarette risk perceptions in the United Kingdom
Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Southern economic journal 90 (2024) 3, pp. 612-633
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Unlucky to Be Young? The Long-Term Effects of School Starting Age on Smoking Behaviour and Health
Bahrs, Michael; Schumann, Mathias - 2016
In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529875
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Peer Effects in UK Adolescent Substance Use: Never Mind the Classmates?
McVicar, Duncan; Polanski, Arnold - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2012
This paper estimates peer influences on the alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use of a school based sample of UK 15 year olds. We present evidence of large, positive and statistically significant peer effects in all three behaviours when classmates are taken as the reference group. When friends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010628074
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Sorting into Secondary Education and Peer Effects in Youth Smoking
Pertold, Filip - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2009
The start of daily smoking is often shortly after the resorting of students between elementary and secondary education … smoking. We address the reflection problem by peers’ pre-secondary-school smoking, which is not influenced by the current … preferences toward smoking, is controlled for using own pre-secondary school behavior and the existing prevalence of smoking among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556897
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A decomposition analysis of cigarette consumption differences between male Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012
Dang, Rui - 2016
In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans … smoking behavior. Our results reveal that more than 50% of the differences in cigarette consumption between male Turkish … Einwanderer durchschnittlich mehr Zigaretten rauchen als männliche Deutsche. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen außerdem, dass sich die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419574