Neighborhood Peer Effects in Secondary School Enrollment Decisions

By Gustavo J. Bobonis, Frederico Finan. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009

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Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment (2007, background): “Bobonis and Finan (2008) consider changes in enrolment of those children that 7.”
The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and Their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery (2011, methodology): “Partial population designs have recently been used to estimate the extent of information dissemination and learning among neighbors and friends (Duflo and Saez 2003; Duflo, Kremer and Robinson 2004; Miguel and Kremer 2004) and peer effects in school participation (Bobonis and Finan 2009; Lalive and ”
Identification and Estimation of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments (2017, methodology): “The most credible ones rely on random assignment of peers (see Sacerdote, 2014, for a recent survey) or random assignment of a treatment (Lalive and Cattaneo, 2009; Bobonis and Finan, 2009; Dieye, Djebbari, and Barrera-Osorio, 2014).”
Social Learning and Incentives for Experimentation and Communication (2018, background): “Our research is related to a growing literature that shows that social relationships are an important vector for the spread of information in a variety of contexts, including educational choices (Garlick 2012; Bobonis and Finan 2009; Carrell and Hoekstra 2010; de Giorgi et al 2010; Duflo, Dupas, and”
The Heterogeneous Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers (2013, background): “The finding contrasts with the relatively large positive spillovers on secondary school enrollment of children in ineligible households in the Progresa experiment (Bobonis and Finan, 2009).”
The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia (2014, methodology): “Using a slightly different identification strategy, Bobonis and Finan (2009) find secondary school attendance increased by 5 percentage points from a base of 68 per cent.”
Welfare programs and labor supply in developing countries: experimental evidence from Latin America (2012, unknown): “communities, and Bobonis and Finan (2009) report substantial spillovers in terms of”
Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India (2013, unknown): “32 Bobonis and Finan (2009), and Lalive and Cattaneo (2009) provide well-identified evidence of positive spillovers from conditional transfer programs (on school participation of non-beneficiaries) using data from Progressa in Mexico that randomized the offer of a CCT both across and within communit”
Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far? (2011, background): “Bobonis and Finan (2009) are able to use experimental variation from Mexico’s PROGRESA program to measure the degree to which peer participation in school raises own participation.”
Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-Country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes (2013, background): “Bobonis and Finan (2008) observe a 5 percent increase in enrollment in Oportunidades program communities, even among those ineligible for the program. Barerra-Osorio et. al. (2008) implement a randomized field experiment in the context of the Conditional Subsidies for School Attendance program in Bo”