Understanding the role of time-varying unobserved ability heterogeneity in education production

Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven F.

doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.01.004

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“…The recent literature has discovered that peer effects can explain firm behaviors that are difficult explain by traditional theory [1]. In corporate behavior, the research on peer effect focuses on financing, for example, capital structure [2].…”

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Do Peer Firms Affect Firm Corporate Social Responsibility?

Yang

Zhu

2017

Sustainability

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Peer-firm strategies are a critical factor for corporate finance, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the main trend for evaluating the behavior of firms. On the basis of the connection between peer strategy and CSR, this paper explores the CSR strategies employed by a sample of Chinese firms during the 2008-2015 period. Our two main empirical findings are as follows. First, the CSR strategies of firms have a positive effect on their CSR behavior. Second, when there is the CSR gap between firms and peer firms, firms will feel the pressure from stakeholders and the public and improve the level of CSR performance. Our paper enriches empirical research on the CSR behavior of Chinese firms.

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Do Peer Firms Affect Firm Corporate Social Responsibility?

Yang

Zhu

2017

Sustainability

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The origins of early childhood anthropometric persistence

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58-5000-0-0080). The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the USDA or ERS. The authors are grateful to Chris Ruhm for helpful comments and Lorenzo Almada for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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Inequalities in test scores between Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth in Canada

Barber

Jones

2021

Economics of Education Review

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This paper documents a robust achievement gap between the math scores of Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth in Canada between 1996 and 2008. Using data from the restricted-access National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth we show that after controlling for a rich set of observables, students who self-identify as Indigenous perform 0.31 standard deviations lower on a standardized math test compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. We find that this test gap emerges by the age of 12, and it did not decline between 1996 and 2008, despite the recommendations of the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples to ameliorate the public education system for Indigenous students. Counterfactual estimates from the decomposition method of Lemieux (2002) suggest that the test gap among the lowest performing students would have been eliminated if Indigenous students faced the same level of and returns to observable characteristics as non-Indigenous students. This exercise does not result in a narrowing of the test gap in the upper tail, suggesting that unobservables, rather than observables, are driving the majority of the test gap among high achieving students.

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Understanding the role of time-varying unobserved ability heterogeneity in education production

Cited by 15 publications

References 54 publications

Do Peer Firms Affect Firm Corporate Social Responsibility?

Do Peer Firms Affect Firm Corporate Social Responsibility?

The origins of early childhood anthropometric persistence

Inequalities in test scores between Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth in Canada

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