Using Technology to Explore Social Networks and Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects in Classrooms.
Peer interactions among children have long interested social scientists. Identifying causal peer effects is difficult, and a number of studies have used random assignment to produce evidence that peers affect each other's outcomes. This focus by sociologists and economists on whether peers affect ea...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 355 - 365 |
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American Psychological Association
March 2008
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