Essays on Social Interactions and Policy Evaluation

In the first part, I explore the start of daily smoking, which is often after the re-sorting of students between elementary and secondary education. I employ a novel identification strategy based on this re-sorting, in order to estimate peer effects in youth smoking. The reflection problem is addres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pertold, Filip
Other Authors: Jurajda, Štěpán
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-296952