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The effect of higher-achieving peers on major choices and labor market outcomes
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students' major choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to university sections in first-year compulsory courses. We...
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Same-sex role model effects in education
de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023
find substantial cross-country variation for job preferences, with larger effects in countries with larger gender gaps …. These results are consistent with role models inspiring students to overcome gender stereotypes and pursue a STEM career …. However, in countries with negligible gender gaps, role models do not seem to have this equalizing function. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333777
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The value of a peer
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Zölitz, Ulf - 2020
This paper introduces peer value-added, a new approach to quantify the total contribution of an individual peer to student performance. Peer value-added captures social spillovers irrespective of whether they are generated by observable or unobservable peer characteristics. Using data with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212591
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The impact of peer personality on academic achievement
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Zölitz, Ulf - 2017
This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence of more persistent peers and more risk-averse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784303
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The effect of peer gender on major choice
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2017
This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784304
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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success
Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...
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Preferences, confusion and competition
Hefti, Andreas; Liu, Shuo; Schmutzler, Armin - 2020
Do firms seek to make the market transparent,or do they confuse the consumers in their product perceptions? We show that the answer to this question depends decisively on preference heterogeneity. Contrary to the well-studied case of homogeneous goods, confusion is not necessarily an equilibrium...
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Skilled or educated? Educational reforms, human capital and earnings
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016
We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our identification strategy exploits differential exposure to educational reforms across birth cohorts and countries. We find that education has the strongest earnings effect. A one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739627
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High school choices by immigrant students in Italy: Evidence from administrative data
Aktas, Koray; Argentin, Gianluca; Barbetta, Gian Paolo; … - 2021
We investigate the educational choices of first- and second-generation immigrantstudents at the transition between lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609104
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Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background
Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2019
Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family...
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