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Siblings' spillover effects on college and major choice : evidence from Chile, Croatia and Sweden
Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; … - 2019 - Latest version: December 19th, 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214260
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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021
This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584602
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Ability grouping and student performance : experimental evidence from middle schools in Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2023
This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474559
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Games on networks : direct complements and indirect substitutes
Currarini, Sergio; Fumagalli, Elena; Panebianco, Fabrizio - 2013
neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities that cumulate in "stocks" affecting agents … network of social relations, as agents display strategic substitution with distance-two neighbors. We show that behavior is … behavior and key-players tend to move to the periphery of the network, and we discuss the effect of close-knit communities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702228
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209
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Sitting next to a dropout: study success of students with peers that came to the lecture hall by a different route
Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022 - This version: January 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093222
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Helping struggling students and benefiting all : peer effects in primary education
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Giannola, Michele - 2022
We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the academic performance of their higher-achieving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802982
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A peer like me? : early exposure to high achievers in math and later educational outcomes
Pagani, Laura; Pica, Giovanni - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803241
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Helping struggling students and benefiting all : peer effects in primary education
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Giannola, Michele - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805588
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"Like with like" or "Do like"? : modelling peer effects in the classroom
Abbiati, Giovanni; Pratschke, Jonathan - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502690