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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Peer effect"”.
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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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Skills Mismatch in the Labour Market: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach
… The research further analyses the impact of peer effect on skills mismatch to find that peer effect does affect the matching process by changing the supply of skills in the economy. Causal effects of exogenous frictions are thus found to impact the job search process. Analysis of spatial …
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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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THREE ESSAYS ON THE INFLUENCE OF PEERS AND PRIMARY CARE ENGAGEMENT
… Measurement error is a ubiquitous problem in the peer effects literature that is not well understood. In Chapter 1, ``Measurement error in peer effects,'' I develop a constructive approach to empirically assess the bias caused by links missing at random. I apply my method to study the bias in peer …
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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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Production, efficiency and managerial selection of workers into peer networks
… a model where workers produce output through peer-effect networks, while managerial selectivity of workers affects worker inefficiency. The intuition behind this model is that managers may consider optimal combinations of workers to produce the best results, and this selectivity in the worker …
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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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Influence of Deliberate Peer-to-Peer Interactions on First-Generation College Students’ Educational Outcomes
… to help them navigate a college setting effectively. They are typically underprepared academically and socially, which can impede their ability to adjust and negatively influence their persistence and ultimately degree attainment. There is research that suggests there are ways to retain …
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Discovering Heterogeneous Causal Effects in Relational Data
… has been limited attention to heterogeneous effects when different units have different responses to treatment and/or a different susceptibility to peer influence, depending on the unit's contexts. This thesis addresses this gap by defining heterogeneous peer influence (HPI) as the general …
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Reading achievement in Kenya: the language factor
… is the pupil's home language. School fixed effects are used to control for unobservable factors at the school level. Results from assessments run over a population of pupils who speak Kiswahili at home against those who do not within the same schools are compared. The Kiswahili literacy …
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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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Essays on Martech: Learning to Design, Deliver, and Diffuse Interventions
… one develops an algorithm to predict the causal effect of influencer video advertising on product sales. A summary statistic, motion-score, or m-score, is proposed to capture the extent to which a product is advertised in the most engaging parts of a video. Pixel-level product placement is …
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Mandatory corporate social responsibility in India: Motivations and effectiveness
The Companies Act of 2013 went into effect in India on April 1, 2014 making it the first law in the world to mandate that companies commit a portion of their profits to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Companies that met certain thresholds of net worth, net profit, or sales were …
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Demand uncertainty and investment in the restaurant industry
… revealed that there is no significant moderating effect of franchising on the uncertainty-investment relationship. When it comes to segment, full-service restaurants are more adversely affected by demand uncertainty than limited-service restaurants.</p> <p>The second essay in chapter 4 explored …
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Green ties, media eyes, and financial tides: exploring the dynamics of corporate environmental sustainability through networks, innovation spillover, and media influence
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Three essays on family structure and school dropout among adolescents
… starts by representing the significant adverse effect of birth order on school completion outcome of the teen. The results indicate that teens with older siblings are more at risk of dropping out of school. Having these initial estimates of the siblings’ effect, I look at the behavior of the …
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Essays in Empirical Labour Economics
… Veneto region in Italy, we explore coworkers' effect on wage growth in two directions. First, using a novel estimation method and accounting for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms, we estimate the impact of average peer quality on future wages. We find that a 10 …
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ESSAYS ON FINANCIAL MARKETS, NETWORKS, AND TECHNOLOGIES
… This approach identifies economically meaningful peers, including crypto-related firms, growth tech stocks, large-cap ETFs, and inflation-hedging ETFs, whose metrics predict IBIT’s market dynamics. Applying this network framework to U.S. common stocks, I find that the average return of a stock’s …
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Incentivizing Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia: Empirical Essays on the Role of Social Norms and Information Provision
… investigates whether and how social networks and peer effects influence farmers’ input decisions, particularly regarding fertilizer application. This study builds on existing literature on social networks in agriculture and examines the extent to which perceptions of farming norms - the visible …