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Peer and parental influence in academic performance and alcohol use
Balsa, Ana Inés; Gandelman, Néstor; Roldán, Flavia - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 55 (2018), pp. 41-55
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130198
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Do peer effects influence the academic performance of rural students at private migrant schools in China?
Min, Shi; Yuan, Zhouhang; Wang, Xiaobing; Hou, Lingling - In: China economic review : an international journal 54 (2019), pp. 418-433
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314564
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The impact of immigrant peers on native students' academic achievement in countries where parents of immigrants are relatively skilled
Seah, Kelvin - 2016
This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the … organise their educational systems, have a crucial bearing on how immigrant students affect their peers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517456
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Non-cognitive peer effects in early education : the influence of children born to teenage mothers on peers’ behavioral problems
Gagete-Miranda, Jessica; Meschi, Elena; Pagani, Laura - In: Economics letters 236 (2024), pp. 1-3
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072005
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Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection : an application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022
local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814374
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Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection : an application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022
local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012873134
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Melting pot kindergarten : the effect of linguistic diversity in early education
Jürges, Hendrik; Makles, Anna; Naghavi, Arash; … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 75 (2022), pp. 1-18
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800572
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Peer effects on childhood and adolescent obesity in China
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; He, Xiaobo - 2014
Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual heterogeneity are controlled for, it is evident that such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413785