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Ability peer effects in university : evidence from a randomized experiment
Booij, Adam S.; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students - conditional on their ability - randomly. The data support a...
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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
especially those with limited English language skills and recent data suggest that North Carolina has the 8th largest ELL student … student from Latin America in general has not been considered. In this paper we attempt to identify both LE student and Latin … American (LA) student peer effects separately utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to deal with the potential …
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Peers affect personality development
Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers along several dimensions. Students with more competitive...
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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates
Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement …
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Identifying peer effects in networks with unobserved effort and isolated students
Houndetoungan, Aristide; Kouame, Cristelle; … - 2024
Peer influence on effort devoted to some activity is often studied using proxy variables when actual effort is unobserved. For instance, in education, academic effort is often proxied by GPA. We propose an alternative approach that circumvents this approximation. Our framework distinguishes...
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Peer creativity and academic achievement
Lent, Max van - 2024
on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first show that the creative abilities of peers matter for a student …
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First generation college students and peer effects
Kofoed, Michael S.; Jones, Todd R. - 2023
Higher education policymakers are concerned about the success of first-generation college students. In this study, we investigate one potential factor that may influence outcomes: first-generation students' peers. To mitigate common biases that may arise when estimating peer effects, we leverage...
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Estimating peer effects among college students : evidence from a field experiment of one-to-one pairings in STEM
Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - 2024
An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a new estimation technique to address these estimation...
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The impact of self-selection on performance
Kiessling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...
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