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Peer group effects on the academic performance of Italian students

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 16/18, pp. 2203-2215

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Struktur- und Exzellenzbildung durch Hochschulen in den neuen Ländern : Abschlussbericht (aktualisierte Fassung) eines Projekts im Rahmen des Forschungsprogramms Aufbau Ost (Az:10....

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Peer Group Effects on the Academic Performance of Italian Students

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2009

We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students' average grade in exams passed during their Second Level Degree course on the basis of their pre-determined measures of abilities, personal characteristics and peer group abilities. Thanks to...

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A major in science? : initial beliefs and final outcomes for college major and dropout

Stinebrickner, Ralph; Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2013

that students enter school quite optimistic about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students end up … graduating with a science degree. The substantial overoptimism about completing a degree in science can be attributed largely to … students beginning school with misperceptions about their ability to perform well academically in science. …

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A major in science? : initial beliefs and final outcomes for college major and dropout

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Differences in motivations and academic achievement

Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Rodríguez Acosta, Mauricio Andrés - In: Lecturas de economía 78 (2013), pp. 9-44

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Same-sex role model effects in education

Gendre, Alexandra de; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

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Same-sex role model effects in education

Gendre, Alexandra de; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...

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