What is a peer? The role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 289-302

  Halliday, Timothy J ^a,b   Kwak, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRINKING; HEALTH SURVEY; SMOKING; STUDENT;

EID: 84857705134     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2010.505557     Document Type: Article

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