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The effect of age diversity in groups on peer evaluations and individual performance

Görlitz, Katja; Sels, Tim - 2021

This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being randomly assigned to an age homogenous or heterogeneous group using data from two TV shows. The data also allows us to explore superior evaluations because it contains objective...

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Peer effects : evidence from secondary school transition in England

Gibbons, Steve; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2012

We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect...

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...

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Early-years multi-grade classes and pupil attainment

Borbely, Daniel; Gehrsitz, Markus; McIntyre, Stuart; … - 2021

We study the effect of exposure to older, more experienced classroom peers resulting from the widespread use of multi-grade classes in Scottish primary schools. For identification, we exploit that a class-planning algorithm quasi-randomly assigns groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find...

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Everybody needs good neighbours? : evidence from students' outcomes in England

Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - 2011

We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on changes in neighbourhood composition caused...

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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace : evidence from a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

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Whom to choose as a team mate? : a lab experiment about in-group favouritism

Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine; Nieken, Petra - 2012

choose as a team mate. The novel feature of your study is that the choice of a team mate is either benevolence or relevant to … (path of study) of the pool of possible team mates and received a signal giving weak information about their ability … chosen team mate. However, we found the opposite. The subjects exerted more favouritism in the revenue sharing scenario …

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Saving face and group identity

Eriksson, Tor; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2015

Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer in their group. We show that a majority of individuals are willing to pay to preserve not only...

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Quitting and peer effects at work

Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2012

While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....

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Understanding social interactions : evidence from the classroom

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011

There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...

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