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Demonstrating compelling causal evidence of the existence and strength of peer to peer influence has become the holy grail of modern research in online social networks. In these networks, it has been consistently demonstrated that user characteristics and behavior tend to cluster both in space...
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This paper explores the obstacles that students from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia face when learning English in a … and Culture Institute in spring 2012, it examines how gender differences shape Saudi students' perception of their peers … observation, interviews with ESL students and teachers, and student writing samples. The findings examine in particular the data …
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We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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This paper examines academic peer effects in college. Unique new data from the Berea Panel Study allow us to focus on a mechanism wherein a student's peers affect her achievement by changing her study effort. Although the potential relevance of this mechanism has been recognized, data...
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particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to … three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room … with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear …
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academic procrastination among students of the Faculty of Economics, State University of Jakarta. This research took place from … September to December 2020 with 100 respondents, namely students of the Faculty of Economics, State University of Jakarta. This …
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Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with … different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. We find strong evidence for the presence of … these two phenomena: our micro-analysis of within- and between-school effects show that bilingual students exhibit higher …
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Reinforcing earlier findings from other data, college senior fraternity/sorority members are more likely to consume alcohol frequently. Large reductions in estimates upon controlling for time spent partying, and to a lesser extent cigarette use and intramural sports involvement, suggest...
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We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and … behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on … changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The …
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the difficulties conflicting students encountered during mediation process as … identified by peer mediator students. The study utilized semi-structured interview technique. Interview forms were used as data … conflicting students had certain types of difficulty in various areas while completing the five steps of the mediation process …
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