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Jahanshahi, Babak – Education Economics, 2017
This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of controlling for endogenous peer effects in estimating the influence of gender peer effects on educational outcomes. Using Manski's linear-in-means model, this paper illustrates that the estimation of gender peer effects is potentially biased in the presence of endogenous peer effect in education.…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Gender Differences, Effect Size, Social Influences
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Maggioni, Liliana; Riconscente, Michelle M.; Alexander, Patricia A. – Learning and Instruction, 2006
This study investigated conceptions of knowledge and beliefs among 242 Italian and 231 American college students. Perceptions of the nature and interrelation of knowledge and beliefs, and prevalent characterizations and sources of these two constructs were explored by qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Differences emerged between Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Beliefs, Research Methodology