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Multivariate Choice and Identification of Social Interactions

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Liu, Xiaodong; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

beneficial to a student’s grade. …

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Student Networks and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: The Strength of Strong Ties

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education …

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Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

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 waves of the AddHealth data, looking at the impact of...

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Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England and Wales: What Do We Know?

Manning, Alan; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one … with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which … methodology: they compare outcomes for students passing through either type of school controlling for achievement levels at the …

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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country’s Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled database including 69 provinces over twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Education and Household Welfare

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using census data from Nepal we examine how the partial derivatives of predicted household welfare vary with parental education.We focus on fertility, child survival, schooling, and child labor. Female education is not as strongly associated with beneficial outcomes as is often assumed. Male...

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Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana

La Ferrara, Eliana; Milazzo, Annamaria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that introduced minimum quotas for the land that parents should devolve on their children. This policy differentially affected ethnic groups depending on their descent rules:...

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Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration,...

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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo AM; Troiano, Ugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under-invest in education, whose returns...

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