Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2018
Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … STEM enrollments by 2% and 3%, respectively. We also find that (1) neighborhood peer effects are as large as school peer … effects, and (2) the effects are nonlinear-namely, the effects are larger for school and neighborhood cohorts with a large …