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Peer effects in higher education: A look at heterogeneous impacts
Griffith, Amanda L.; Rask, Kevin N. - In: Economics of Education Review 39 (2014) C, pp. 65-77
This paper uses data on roommates from two different selective institutions to investigate the effect of peers on first-year performance, with a specific focus on the underlying mechanism. We compare measures of academic ability across student sub-groups by race, income, and gender, and across...
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Peer effects and measurement error: The impact of sampling variation in school survey data (evidence from PISA)
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Silva, Pedro N. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1136-1142
Investigation of peer effects on achievement with sample survey data on schools may mean that only a random sample of the population of peers is observed for each individual. This generates measurement error in peer variables similar in form to the textbook case of errors-in-variables, resulting...
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Peer effects in college academic outcomes – Gender matters!
Ficano, Carlena Cochi - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1102-1115
An extensive literature exploring a range of peer influences on both academic and non-academic outcomes continues to produce contradictory evidence regarding the existence and magnitude of peer effects. Our results provide no evidence of peer effects in models where peer academic ability is...
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The costs of failure: Negative externalities in high school course repetition
Hill, Andrew J. - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 91-105
Failure in US high school courses is common, but little is known about its effects. This paper investigates the extent to which course repeaters in high school mathematics courses exert negative externalities on their course-mates. Using individual and school-specific course fixed effects to...
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Gender gaps in primary school achievement
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 176-187
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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Disruptive school peers and student outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie Helene Grøne; Krægpøth, Morten … - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 1-13
This paper estimates how peers’ achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort....
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Does competition improve public school efficiency? A spatial analysis
Misra, Kaustav; Grimes, Paul W.; Rogers, Kevin E. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1177-1190
Advocates for educational reform frequently call for policies to increase competition between schools because it is argued that market forces naturally lead to greater efficiencies, including improved student learning, when schools face competition. Researchers examining this issue are...
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Why women are progressive in education? Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 196-206
This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts on …
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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions: A Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 515-523
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … the 95% posterior interval for the effect of education on income. Thus, a violation of the strict validity assumption does …
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Effects of welfare reform on vocational education and training
Dave, Dhaval M.; Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope; Das, … - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1399-1415
welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational … education and had no significant effects on part-time vocational education or participation in other types of work … education (including college enrollment), which we replicated in this study, have been offset by increases in vocational …
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