It's not your peers, and it's not your friends: Some progress toward understanding the educational peer effect mechanism

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 1455-1475

  Foster, Gigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746590826     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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