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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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been standardized to an international mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100, which facilitates the comparison across …
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detailed information on the early school career of a large representative sample of pupils. This dataset makes it possible to … sector housing. Section 5 shows the �ndings with the panel of pupils. Section 6 concludes. 2 Data and Variables The datasets … school, the heavy teaching load, and the very high propor- tion of pupils who have to repeat one or two grades before the end …
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