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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Peer Effects"”.
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Peer Effects on Educational Aspirations
… chapter of the dissertation examined the effects of social influence and selection on academic ambitions and achievement in two school subjects: Hungarian literature and mathematics. Using longitudinal social network models, the analysis disentangled social influence on academic ambitions …
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Essays On Peer Effects And Network Econometrics
… proposes new estimators of program treatment effects in the presence of spillovers, a situation where one person's treatment can affect another's outcome.The first chapter focuses on a setting where treatment decisions depend on observables and there are spillovers from friends in a social …
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Essays on Peer Effects in Financial Misreporting
… around three empirical analyses relating to peer effects in financial misreporting choices. The first study investigates peer effects among listed companies and shows that companies engage in real activities manipulation following peers’ choices. Apparently, companies perceive the benefits of …
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Estimating peer effects in networked panel data
… use. These choices can be influenced by peer decisions in networks, but identifying causal peer influence effects is challenging. Correlations in peer behavior may be driven by correlated effects, exogenous consumer and peer characteristics, or endogenous peer effects of behavior (Manski …
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Gendering professions : an analysis of peer effects
… dissertation provides conclusive evidence for peer influence and gendered peer influence on professional identity formation in engineering. After surveying the literature on identity formation theories, my first study investigates a host of professional identity indicators to establish which …
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Essays on Social Capital and Peer Effects
… production function to identify the different effects of making a friend of the same gender and the opposite gender in a school network. Unlike other gender peer effects literature that only quantifies the causal effects of the proportion of girls in an aggregated level, such as other students …
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Self-selection and peer-effects in experimental labor markets
… labor market interactions, social norms and peer-effects in non-cognitive skills acquisition.</p> <p>In my first Chapter, I use experimental methods to better understand behavioral roots of corruption. Corruption is endemic to most developing countries. Most of the recent research in …
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Peer effects in negotiating participation in the adjustment to school
… in the classroom between teacher and child and peers (Dyson, 1997). There is a strong link made in the literature between early academic achievement and learning related social skills. The prediction of this study was that adjustment to school is strongly influenced by peer interaction and …
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Weak Identification and Network Measurement Error in Peer Effects Estimation
… research on social interactions. In particular, peer effects, once considered unidentifiable, have now been shown to be identified given knowledge of the network structure. Despite this positive result, questions remain about the existence and nature of peer effects, due to concerns about …
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Optimal pricing model for adoption of new products influenced by peer effects
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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The Makings of a Peer: Evidence on Within-Classroom Heterogeneities in Peer Effects
<p>This dissertation consists of three essays on peer effects in elementary school classrooms using data from New York City (NYC) public schools. Each chapter explores a different component of within-classroom interactions in order to build towards an understanding of what makes a peer …
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Peer effects in agricultural extension: Evidence of endogenous social interaction in the performance of community knowledge (extension) workers in Uganda
… is a major issue in the identification of peer effects due to endogeneity, which limits the possibility of separating the effects of the observed attributes of peers from that of social interaction. However, recent methodological advances in social network analysis (such as Cohen-Cole …
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Social media sharing and online news consumption
… and beyond. However, identifying causal effects in this context is very difficult. The data requirements are quite demanding, calling for data from both social media platforms and content producers. In addition, feedback loops inherently suffer simultaneous equation bias. Using regional …
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Adoption, Spatial Patterns, and Behavioral Mechanisms in California Turf Removal Rebate Programs
… the role that non-price mechanisms such as peer effects, social norms, personal norms, and household characteristics play in the household decision to participate in this program. The first paper uses a multilevel survival model framework to explore spatial patterns, drivers of …
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Essays in the economics of education
… three chapters that study how characteristics of peers and schools affect human capital. The first chapter reports estimates of academic and social peer effects from a large-scale field experiment at selective boarding schools in Peru. The experimental design overcomes some methodological …
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Essays on economic design and coalition formation
… or interns and hospitals. Complementarities and peer effects are inherent in many such matching situations. The chapter provides the first sufficient condition for stability that may be used to study matching with complementarities and peer effects. The condition offered is shown to be also …
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The effect of peer firms determining firm capital structure: evidence from manufacturing in Malaysia
… of this study is to investigate the impact of peer firms’ financial policies (capital structure) on target firm financing behaviour (capital structure), and to empirically test whether non-linear relationship of profitability with capital structure and growth opportunities exists. In order to …
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The Effects of Physician Organization on the Disadoption of Low-Value Services: Evidence From PSA Testing and Mammography
… of new clinical guidelines. I examine the effects of two components of group organization, peer effects and group size, on physician disadoption of low-value services in two settings: prostate cancer screening using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test following the 2012 guideline …
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Deep play, urban space, adolescent place: a multi-sited study of the effects of settings on adolescent risk/reward behavior
… trend by looking to see if physical qualities, peer effects, and neighborhood context of settings play a deeper role in youth behavior. The study documented urban context, peer effects, physical features, and play behavior across 21 urban settings in New Orleans. Unobtrusive observations …
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Studies and Experiments in Labor and Education Economics
… Programs on public school student outcomes; if peer effects can be incentivized in randomized group settings; and the level of inate discrimination in virtual reality dictator games. Individual abstracts can be found at the beginning of each chapter.
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