Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium: Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement
We develop and estimate a model of student study time choices on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time in a heterogeneous manner. Social network data allow us to embed study time and resulting academic achievement in an estimable equilibrium framework. We develop a specification test that exploits the equilibrium nature of social interactions and use it to show that novel study propensity measures mitigate econometric endogeneity concerns.
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Copy CitationTimothy Conley, Nirav Mehta, Ralph Stinebrickner, and Todd Stinebrickner, "Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium: Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement," NBER Working Paper 21418 (2015), https://doi.org/10.3386/w21418.Download Citation
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Published Versions
Timothy G. Conley & Nirav Mehta & Ralph Stinebrickner & Todd Stinebrickner, 2024. "Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium: Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement," Journal of Political Economy, vol 132(3), pages 824-866.
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