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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...
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The impact of immigrant peers on native students' academic achievement in countries where parents of immigrants are relatively skilled
Seah, Kelvin - 2016
This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation in the share of immigrant children between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517456
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Non-cognitive peer effects in secondary education
Shure, Nikki - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 73 (2021), pp. 1-26
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Who benefits from selective education? : evidence from elite boarding school admissions
Shi, Ying - In: Economics of education review 74 (2020), pp. 1-26
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Short-run and long-run effects of peers from disrupted families
Lei, Ziteng - In: Journal of population economics : international … 35 (2022) 3, pp. 1007-1036
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The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools
Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2017
, and exploit within-school variation both within and across cohorts for identification. Our results show small negative …
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The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools
Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774695
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School resources, peer inputs, and student outcomes in adult education
Tilley, J. Lucas - In: Economics of education review 96 (2023), pp. 1-28
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Teacher characteristics and student performance : evidence from random teacher-student assignments in China
Huang, Wei; Li, Teng; Pan, Yinghao; Ren, Jinyang - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 214 (2023), pp. 747-781
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The impact of all-day schools on student achievement : evidence from extending school days in German primary schools
Seidlitz, Arnim; Zierow, Larissa - 2020
This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …
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