Le professeur Vincent Boucher a un nouvel article à paraître dans Economics of Education Review

31 août 2022

Le professeur Vincent Boucher publiera un article intitulé "Peer-Induced Beliefs Regarding College Participation" dans le journal Economics of Education Review. Cet article a été co-écrit avec F. Antoine Dedewanou (Statistique Canada) et Arnaud Dufays (EDHEC Business School).

Résumé: "We study the heterogeneity of peer effects on the formation of beliefs regarding college participation. We present a structural model of learning in friendship networks. We show that the model is identified and we present a Bayesian estimation procedure. We estimate the model using data on teenagers’ beliefs regarding college participation, controlling for preferences and academic achievement. While we find that, on average, friends’ beliefs account for about 8% of the updating process, we also find strong heterogeneity among schools and individuals. In particular, we find substantial unobserved individual heterogeneity (ranging from close to 0 to more than 75%), which casts doubt on the efficiency of network-targeted public policies.