develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education … in the fourth wave in 2007-2008 (when adult). We find that there are strong and persistent peer effects in education but …

students’ academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations …, quantile regressions suggest peer effects to be asymmetric in favour of low-ability students, meaning that students with lower …

the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and … neighborhood’s quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the …

We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …

effect cannot be identified without any exclusion restrictions. We then study the impact of peer effects on education and … beneficial to a student’s grade. …

at different parts of the test score distribution of native Dutch students using a quantile regression approach. We find …

positive effects dominate across worker types defined by age or education. Negative effects dominate within age groups and … among low-education types. Policy simulations show that these estimated effects make the distribution of where women work an …