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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 … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784303
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Peers Affect Personality Development
Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … of peers’ extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism. To explain these results, we propose a simple model of personality … development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model’s prediction, personality spillovers are concentrated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266694
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Peers Affect Personality Development
Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … of peers'extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism. To explain these results, we propose a simple model of personality … development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model's prediction, personality spillovers are concentrated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351796
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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 … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752330
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Peers affect personality development
Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … of peers' extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism. To explain these results, we propose a simple model of personality … development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model's prediction, personality spillovers are concentrated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186792
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Peers affect personality development
Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … personality development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model - prediction, personality spillovers are … concentrated in traits predictive of performance. Students adopt personality traits that are productive in the university context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187857
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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
This paper provides evidence on ability peer effects in university education. Identification comes from the random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019108
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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401715
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Exposure to more female peers widens the gender gap in STEM participation
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969196
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Are professors worth it? The value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969204