Heterogeneous Peer Effects in Education

Yves Zenou, Eleonora Patacchini and Edoardo Rainone

No 9804, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: We develop a network model looking at the role of different types of peers in education. The empirical salience of the model is tested using a very detailed longitudinal dataset of adolescent friendship networks. We find that there are strong and persistent peer effects in education but peers tend to be influential only when their friendships last more than a year and not a shorter period of time. In the short run, however, both types of ties have an impact on current grades.

Keywords: Education; Efficient 2sls estimation; Long-term peer effects; Social Networks; Spatial autoregressive model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 D85 I21 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-02
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