Experimental and quasi-experimental analysis of peer effects: two steps forward?

B Sacerdote - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2014 - annualreviews.org
In the past 10 years, there has been an explosion of well-identified studies that measure
peer effects across many settings and for many outcomes. The emphasis on natural …

School hopscotch: A comprehensive review of K–12 student mobility in the United States

RO Welsh - Review of Educational Research, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article provides an integrative review of the extant literature on K–12 student mobility in
the United States. Student mobility is a widespread phenomenon with significant policy …

COVID-19 and Student Performance, Equity, and US Education Policy: Lessons from Pre-Pandemic Research to Inform Relief, Recovery, and Rebuilding.

E García, E Weiss - Economic Policy Institute, 2020 - ERIC
The COVID-19 pandemic is overwhelming the functioning and outcomes of education
systems--some of which were already stressed in many respects. The shutdown of schools …

Two-way fixed effects estimators with heterogeneous treatment effects

C De Chaisemartin, X d'Haultfoeuille - American economic review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Linear regressions with period and group fixed effects are widely used to estimate treatment
effects. We show that they estimate weighted sums of the average treatment effects (ATE) in …

Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes

S Gupta, L Montenovo, T Nguyen… - Contemporary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
US workers receive unemployment benefits if they lose their job, but not for reduced working
hours. In alignment with the benefits incentives, we find that the labor market responded to …

Input specificity and the propagation of idiosyncratic shocks in production networks

JN Barrot, J Sauvagnat - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This article examines whether firm-level idiosyncratic shocks propagate in production
networks. We identify idiosyncratic shocks with the occurrence of natural disasters. We find …

The long-run effects of disruptive peers

SE Carrell, M Hoekstra, E Kuka - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in education.
However, there is relatively little evidence on the long-run educational and labor market …

Do suspensions affect student outcomes?

J Lacoe, MP Steinberg - Educational Evaluation and Policy …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Discipline reformers claim that suspensions negatively affect suspended students, while
others suggest reforms have unintended consequences for peers. Using student panel data …

Peer effects in program participation

GB Dahl, KV Løken, M Mogstad - American Economic Review, 2014 - aeaweb.org
We estimate peer effects in paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity
design. Coworkers and brothers are 11 and 15 percentage points, respectively, more likely …

Teacher expectations matter

NW Papageorge, S Gershenson… - Review of Economics and …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
We show that tenth-grade teacher expectations affect students' likelihood of college
completion. Our approach leverages a unique feature of a nationally representative dataset …