From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of Endogenous Peer Group Formation

By S. Carrell, Bruce I. Sacerdote, J. E. West. 2013

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The State of Applied Econometrics - Causality and Policy Evaluation (2016, neutral): “, Manski [1993], Carrell et al. [2013]), workers in a labor market (Crépon et al. [2013]) or roommates in college (Sacerdote [2001]), or with general networks, where friends of friends are not necessarily friends themselves (Christakis and Fowler [2007]).”
Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, unknown): “However, using data collected about experimentally manipulated peer groups among freshmen at the Air Force Academy, Carrell et al. (2013) find negative peer effects on the lowest-ability group members, perhaps partly because of endogenous subgroup formation which separated them from their highest-ab”
Dynamic Spatial Panel Models: Networks, Common Shocks, and Sequential Exogeneity (2018, unknown): “ £ +0   ×  +  +0  |C ¤ = Σ tr [ (Σ|C)]  (13) Cov(+0   ×  +  0  +    +0   ×  +  0  +  |C) (14) = (Σ 0 )(Σ 0 ) £ tr(Σ 0 Σ)|C ¤ + (Σ 0 ) (2) [tr(ΣΣ)|C] +(Σ 0 ) £ Σ|C ¤ +K1 Cov(+0   ×  +  0  +    +0   ×  ”
Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns: Theory and Evidence (2017, unknown): “Finally, by subtracting the region effect from the first term, we obtain the earthquake effect.”
Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2016, background): “Previous experimental studies of ability peer effects in education have examined the effect of one specific peer configuration as compared to another (cf. Carrell et al., 2013; Duflo et al., 2011).”
Behavioral Economics of Education (2015, background): “4 Recently, it has been shown that it may be difficult to manipulate peer groups to actually improve outcomes (Carrell et al., 2013).”
A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment (2017, background): “It can help explain seemingly puzzling findings of the more recent literature on nonlinear peer effects, which shows that students at the low end of the peer ability distribution are negatively affected by better peers (Carrell et al. 2013).”
Identification and Estimation of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments (2017, background): “However, random assignment of groups breaks apart when individuals refuse to interact with the peers they were assigned to (Carrell, Sacerdote, and West, 2013).”