Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 4 (2013) 1, pp. 85-124
This paper develops a new approach to identifying peer achievement spillovers in the context of an equilibrium model of student effort choices. By focusing on the effect of contemporaneous peer achievement, this framework integrates previously unexplored types of heterogeneity in peer spillovers...