The perils of peer effects

Labour Economics

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 98-108

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Instrumental variables; Social returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910079788     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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