Boucher, Vincent; Bramoullé, Yann; Djebbari, Habiba; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a … investigate peer effects in student achievement in Mathematics, Science, French and History in Quebec secondary schools. We … estimate the model using maximum likelihood and instrumental variables methods. We find evidence of peer effects. The …