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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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Peer pressure and productivity : the role of observing and being observed

Georganas, Sotiris; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2013

. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are … observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …

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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...

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Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea: retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy

Glaser, Darrell J.; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2021

This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...

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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015

We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...

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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...

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Fairness and frictions : the impact of unequal raises on quit behavior

Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2015

We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...

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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects

Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...

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The long-term impacts of low-achieving childhood peers : evidence from project STAR

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015

This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal...

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