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The impact of peer personality on academic achievement
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Zölitz, Ulf - 2017
This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752330
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Non-cognitive peer effects in secondary education
Shure, Nikki - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 73 (2021), pp. 1-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273486
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Does the rotten child spoil his companion? : spatial peer effects among children in rural India
Helmers, Christian; Patnam, Manasa - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 1, pp. 67-121
This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisition using observational data. We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child’s nearest geographical neighbors, into a production function of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757133
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Identity economics : social influence and skill development
Norris, Jonathan - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110828
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Peer influence on teenagers' preference for brand name food products : the mediation effect of peer identity
Zhang, Hongli; Li, Ruiqin; Veeck, Ann; Yu, Hongyan - In: International journal of consumer studies 46 (2022) 4, pp. 1099-1112
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328234
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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 …, we find suggestive evidence that these effects are driven by the peers' personality skills. …
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 …, we find suggestive evidence that these effects are driven by the peers' personality skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800572
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Examining the effect of group prototypes and divergent strength of identification on the effectiveness of identity appeals
McGowan, Miriam; Hassan, Louise; Shiu, Edward - In: European journal of marketing 56 (2022) 3, pp. 817-839
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173449
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The effect of noncognitive traits on health behaviours in adolescence
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - In: Health economics 23 (2014) 9, pp. 1146-1158
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307849
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Personality and the education-health gradient : a note on "Understanding differences in health behaviors by education"
Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher - 2012
We test the robustness of the results of Cutler and Lleras-Muney (2010) on the role of personality in explaining the … education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628151