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We study peer influence in an online social network on a platform where consumers purchase music albums. They can follow their peers and become informed about their consumption choices. In particular, we are interested in how this affects consumers' exploration of new music that exhibits...
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Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects in honesty and cooperation and tested the...
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …
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effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools, as in … Epple and Romano, 1998. An alternative configuration, with public schools offering a higher educational standard than … private schools, is also possible, in spite of the fact that tuition levied by private schools is strictly positive. In our …
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We use a change in Iceland’s education system as a natural experiment to measure the effect of years spent in upper secondary school on subsequent first year outcomes at university. The duration of Iceland´s upper-secondary education was shortened by one year through compression of the...
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The difference-in-differences (DID) approach that identifies the capitalization of amenities through changes in housing prices has been widely used in the literature of hedonic estimation in the past decade. However, concerns have been raised about how to interpret the estimated capitalization...
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public schools with greater exposure to IRCA migrants. This effect is driven by increased Hispanic enrollment, while whites …
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effects models. Our analyses show important differences in return by field, with similar patterns for for-profit schools and …-profit schools than those attending community colleges. Higher estimated overall returns for for-profit schools are not primarily due …
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Criminal activity is seasonal, peaking in the summer and declining through the winter. We provide the first evidence that arrests of children and reported crimes involving children follow a different pattern: peaking during the school year and declining in the summer. We use a regression...
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Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents’ integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
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