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Peer effects and social networks in education

Peer effects and social networks in education
Peer effects and social networks in education
We develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to his/her Katz–Bonacich centrality measure. This measure takes into account both direct and indirect friends of each individual, but puts less weight to his/her distant friends. We then bring the model to the data using a very detailed dataset of adolescent friendship networks. We show that, after controlling for observable individual characteristics and unobservable network specific factors, a standard deviation increase in the Katz–Bonacich centrality increases the pupil school performance by more than 7% of one standard deviation.
0034-6527
1239-1267
Calvo-Armengol, Antoni
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Patacchini, Eleonora
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Zenou, Yves
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Calvo-Armengol, Antoni
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Patacchini, Eleonora
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Zenou, Yves
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Calvo-Armengol, Antoni, Patacchini, Eleonora and Zenou, Yves (2009) Peer effects and social networks in education. The Review of Economic Studies, 76 (4), 1239-1267. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-937X.2009.00550.x).

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We develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to his/her Katz–Bonacich centrality measure. This measure takes into account both direct and indirect friends of each individual, but puts less weight to his/her distant friends. We then bring the model to the data using a very detailed dataset of adolescent friendship networks. We show that, after controlling for observable individual characteristics and unobservable network specific factors, a standard deviation increase in the Katz–Bonacich centrality increases the pupil school performance by more than 7% of one standard deviation.

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Published date: October 2009
Organisations: Social Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 339650
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/339650
ISSN: 0034-6527
PURE UUID: 91f4cd50-2863-41c5-94c0-3cd954560c10
ORCID for Yves Zenou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6516-0812

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Date deposited: 29 May 2012 08:53
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:43

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Author: Antoni Calvo-Armengol
Author: Eleonora Patacchini
Author: Yves Zenou ORCID iD

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