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Empirical analysis of peer effects on student achievement has been open to question because of the difficulties of separating peer effects from other confounding influences....

Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining...

We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (Journal of Econometrics 2007; 140(2), 333-374) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model...

This paper considers the estimation of dynamic panel data models when data are suspected to exhibit cross-sectional dependence. A new estimator is defined that uses...