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Monthly Archives: February 2017
You can’t be your own friend, and that’s a big problem for measuring peer effects
Peer effects – the impact of your friends, colleagues, and neighbors on your own behavior – are important in many areas of social science. To analyze peer effects we usually estimate equations of the form [math]Y_i=\alpha+\beta PeerAbility+e_i[/math] We want to … Continue reading
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