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Reference dependent aspirations and peer effects in education
Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022
We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a … theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by … peer inequality. Our results provide evidence on the role of inequality in peer groups for long-run educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471214
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Rank, sex, drugs, and crime
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, and exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the cohort composition within a school, we find a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386816
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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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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates
Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391367
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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/10011752330
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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744092
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The importance of peer quality for completion of higher education
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Thorsager, Mette - 2021
Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … period 1985 to 2010, we investigate the importance of a student's peers in higher education for the decision to drop out. We … cohorts within the same education and institution. Our findings suggest that peer ability is an important determinant of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012435579
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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates
Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389470
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Peer effects on academic self-concept : a large randomized field experiment
Keller, Tamás; Kim, Jinho; Elwert, Felix - 2022
Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452464
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Peer creativity and academic achievement
Lent, Max van - 2024
This paper studies the relationship between the creative abilities of study peers and academic achievement. We conduct a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495633