With a little help from your friends: Evidence of peer effects from a field experiment

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.About the speaker: Carrie Xu is the first joint doctoral candidate in economics and information science at the University of Michigan. Her main fields of interest are labor, behavioral and experimental economics. Carrie's current research examines peer effects using experimental methods in contexts such as college education. She received a bachelor of art in economics with a minor in applied mathematics from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2011.

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