Essays in economics of education: lessons from the 2010 earthquake in Chile

This thesis comprises two research papers that use the 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile in 2010 as a source of exogenous variation in: peer composition for the first paper and in school year length in the second one. My first paper, chapter 2 of this thesis, studies the causal effect of classmates o...

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Main Author: Pincheira Sarmiento, Bernardo Eugenio
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/57373/