Social Interactions in High School: Lessons from an Earthquake

Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso

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“…We extend earlier work of Cipollone and Rosolia (2007) on Italy in three main respects. First, while their analysis regards some parts of Italy, we look at the effects of the abolition of National Service in all the Italian territory.…”

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“…Cipollone and Rosolia (2007) look at the consequences of exemption from CMS given to a few cohorts of men living in areas of southern Italy that were hit by an earthquake in 1980. They find that this exemption led to a 2 percentage points increase in male high school graduation rates.…”

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“…Second, our study uses very recent data as CMS was abolished in Italy in 2005. Third, whilst Cipollone and Rosolia (2007) examine how not being at risk of service has affected the choice to finish high school, we analyse the effect of the abolition of CMS on the university enrolment decision.…”

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Military conscription and university enrolment: evidence from Italy

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2012

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“…The basic idea is that if PROGRESA directly raised attendance of the first set of children, peer effects must explain why attendance among the ineligible increased. This type of exercise is informative, but again suffers from interpretation problems of the type we have raised in the context of Cipollone and Rosolia (2007). We simply note here that the Heckman (1997) and associated critiques have equal force when instrumental variables are employed to account for self-selection as when they are used to account for group level unobservables.…”

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Identification of Social Interactions

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Brock²,

Durlauf³

et al. 2011

Handbook of Social Economics

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While interest in social determinants of individual behavior has led to a rich theoretical literature and many efforts to measure these influences, a mature "social econometrics" has yet to emerge. This chapter provides a critical overview of the identification of social interactions. We consider linear and discrete choice models as well as social networks structures. We also consider experimental and quasi-experimental methods. In addition to describing the state of the identification literature, we indicate areas where additional research is especially needed and suggest some directions that appear to be especially promising. KeywordsSocial interactions, social networks, identification JEL Classification C21, C23, C31, C35, C72, Z13 CommentsPrepared for the Handbook of Social Economics, J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, and M. Jackson, eds. We thank Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Jane Cooley, James Heckman, Charles Manski and Salvador Navarro for many conversations on the subject of this chapter. Financial support has been supplied to Blume by NSF grant CCF-0910940 and WWTF Grant "Die Evolution von Normen and Konventionen in der

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“…2 1 Individuals can be more or less sensitive to social pressures of this kind. For specific empirical evidence about the effects that social considerations may have on educational choices see Cipollone and Rosolia (2007). 2 Non-selfish agents are agents whose actions are influenced by the behaviour of some other individuals or reference group.…”

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Education, dynamic signalling, and social distance

Gallice

2008

Oxford Economic Papers

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In many European countries the average level of education has grown steadily over the last few generations. The paper shows how such a trend can be easily rationalized by a model that extends a standard signalling game in two directions. First, a temporal structure is induced by having two different cohorts of individuals playing the game. Second, to standard rational agents, the model postulates the existence of two classes of agents that care about their relative position in the distribution of educational choices. Conformist individuals wish to be close to the average level; status seeking individuals seek to be above it. Results show that the presence of these two classes of individuals generates an average level of education that changes and increases over time for a wide range of choice of parameters. Consequences of this increasing level of education on the behaviour of the firms are also explored.JEL classifications: I20, D82.

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Social Interactions in High School: Lessons from an Earthquake

Cited by 64 publications

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Military conscription and university enrolment: evidence from Italy

Military conscription and university enrolment: evidence from Italy

Identification of Social Interactions

Education, dynamic signalling, and social distance

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