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School-based peer effects and juvenile behavior

Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Raphael, Steven - 1997

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School-based peer effects and juvenile behavior

Gaviria Uribe, Alejandro; Raphael, Steven - In: The review of economics and statistics 83 (2001) 2, pp. 257-268

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Chapter Three. The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 95-199). 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …

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Does classroom gender composition affect school dropout?

Anil, Bulent; Güner, Duygu; Delibasi, Tuba Toru; … - 2016

problem in a setting where girls are not academically better. Using 2009-2010 school year data on 8th graders in Turkey, this … variables e.g. parental and academic background of the student, school and regional characteristics. We also find that the …

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Peer effects on risky behaviors: New evidence from college roommate assignments

Eisenberg, Daniel; Golberstein, Ezra; Whitlock, Janis L. - In: Journal of health economics 33 (2014), pp. 126-138

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The friendship paradox and systematic biases in perceptions and social norms

Jackson, Matthew O. - In: Journal of political economy 127 (2019) 2, pp. 777-818

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The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms

Jackson, Matthew O. - 2017

The 'friendship paradox' (Feld1991) refers to the fact that, on average, people have strictly fewer friends than their friends have. I show that this over-sampling of the most popular people amplifies behaviors that involve complementarities. People with more friends experience greater...

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Peer effects and multiple equilibria in the risky behavior of friends

Card, David E.; Giuliano, Laura - In: The review of economics and statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1130-1149

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Peer effects and multiple equilibria in the risky behavior of friends

Card, David E.; Giuliano, Laura - 2011

Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use … also initiates intercourse, holding constant family and individual factors. Similar effects are also present for smoking …

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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends

Card, David - 2011

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