Peer effects and health impacts of different body cognitive biases in children: micro evidence from China [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundIn China, children commonly display body cognitive biases, which constitute a significant yet hidden public health issue. These biases potentially jeopardize children’s well-being, hinder the cultivation of human capital, and impede societal ...
Yun Zhang, Xueying Wang, Weiqiang Zhu
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Peer Effects on Real-Time Search Behavior in Experimental Stock Markets [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 It is a well-documented phenomenon that individuals stop searching earlier than predicted by the optimal, risk-neutral stopping rule, leading to inefficient searches.
Xuejun Jin +3 more
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Peer Effects on Engagement and Disengagement: Differential Contributions From Friends, Popular Peers, and the Entire Class [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 School engagement and disengagement are important predictors of school success that are grounded in the social context of the classroom. This study used multilevel analysis to examine the contributions of the descriptive norms of friends, popular ...
Nina Steenberghs +3 more
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Peer Effects on Academic Performance of High School Students in a County-Level Context of Western China: Empirical Evidence from Large-Scale Social Network Survey [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesPeer relationships are closely associated with the academic performance of adolescent students. This paper develops an integrated framework taking the peer main effect as the starting point to systematically incorporate the demonstration effect, the ...
Pengfei Zhang +3 more
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Peer effects of health behaviors and the moderating role of Internet use among middle-aged and older adults: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey in China [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthObjectiveThis study investigates peer effects on the health behaviors of middle-aged and older adult people in China and examines the moderating role of Internet use.MethodsA total of 16,188 respondents were selected from the China Health and Retirement ...
Yanyin Cui +4 more
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Estimating peer effects in networks with peer encouragement designs. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 Peer effects, in which the behavior of an individual is affected by the behavior of their peers, are central to social science. Because peer effects are often confounded with homophily and common external causes, recent work has used randomized experiments to estimate effects of specific peer behaviors.
Eckles D, Kizilcec RF, Bakshy E.
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Социологический журнал, 2021 Academic achievements play an important role in an individual’s professional development, and are also considered one of the main characteristics of an education system.
Sofia V. Dokuka
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Mathematics, 2021 Peer effects in the context of higher education have lately received increased attention. Higher diversity in the composition of new cohorts of students, generated mainly in countries where public and institutional policies have enabled access to ...
Angela Granger-Serrano +1 more
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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students’ course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven by improved group interaction rather than adjustments in ...
Feld, Jan, Zölitz, Ulf
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Nordic Studies in Education, 2021 This study analyses whether disruptive classroom behaviour affects students’ results in Swedish lower secondary schools (N = 1704), measured by the schools’ grade point averages (GPA).
Pontus Bäckström
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