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based on their academic histories. Results show that an editor's former PhD students and faculty colleagues experience an …
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We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on peer effects in education. Theoretical models of peer effects are first summarized. Models of educational provision regimes in which peer effects play a central role are then discussed. Next we discuss the identification issues in estimating...
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The tracking of students in upper-secondary school is often criticised for narrowing the career prospects of student in … tackle this problem, Australia blurred the lines between the two tracks by introducing VET courses that count to both a …
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Do international students and/or students from non-English language speaking backgrounds (NESB students) perform worse … than other students in Australian undergraduate classrooms? What happens to other students' marks when these students are … the business faculties of two Australian Technology Network universities. Results show that both international students …
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The tracking of students in upper-secondary school is often criticised for narrowing the career prospects of student in … tackle this problem, Australia blurred the lines between the two tracks by introducing VET courses that count to both a …
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and the California Master Plan as well as the tuition fee systems in Australia, New Zealand and England have addressed …
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policies that subsidize kids' socialization efforts can backfire for low-educated students because they tend to increase their … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus …
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costs to friendship cause both within-group and systematic across-group heterogeneity in the extent of students' search …
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-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 coordinate their absences. Leveraging a parent-information intervention … on student absences, we find spillover effects from treated students onto peers in their network. We show that an optimal …
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This study focuses on the role of heterogeneity in network peer effects by accounting for network-specific factors and different driving mechanisms of peer behavior. We propose a novel Multivariate Instrumental Variable (MVIV) estimator which is consistent for a large number of networks keeping...
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