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How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children

Ohinata, Asako; van Ours, Jan C. - 2011

In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...

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Peer effects in European primary schools: evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …

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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008

Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...

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How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking

Kimbrough, Erik O.; McGee, Andrew; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2017

Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely depends on classroom composition in terms of peers' ability. Unfortunately, little is known about peer-to-peer teaching because it is never observed in field studies. Furthermore,...

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Ordinal Rank and Peer Composition: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Bertoni, Marco; Nistico, Roberto - 2019

We use data from two experiments that randomly assign students to groups to show that, so long as ordinal rank has a causal effect on educational achievement, estimates of the effects of peer ability composition obtained from models that omit rank are downward biased. This finding holds both in...

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Price Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences

Rutledge, Robert; Alladi, Vinayak; Cheung, Stephen L. - 2022

We experimentally test Kőszegi and Rabin's (2006, 2007) theory of reference-dependent preferences in the context of … produce a 'comparison effect', moving WTA in the opposite direction to the forced sale price. Consistent with the theory, we …

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Foundations of the Rank-Dependent Probability Weighting Function

Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019

The psychological basis for rank-dependent probability weighting, and for an inverse-S probability weighting function (PWF) in particular, has often been questioned. I examine the existence and shape of the PWF in a model allowing for optimism/pessimism over probability distributions and for...

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Tracking When Ranking Matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...

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Choice, competition and pupil achievement

Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2006

. In this paper, we study whether pupils in Primary schools in England with a wider range of school choices achieve better … between choice and achievement, but uncover a small positive association between competition and school performance. Yet, this … discontinuities generated by admissions district boundaries suggests that the performance gains from greater school competition are …

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Human capital investment with competitive labor search

Kaas, Leo; Zink, Stefan - 2008

We study human capital accumulation in an environment of competitive search. Given that unemployed workers can default on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer riskier but better paid careers than is socially desirable. A higher level of employment risk in...

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