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...

CEE DP 65 Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS Andreas Ammermueller Jörn-Steffen Pischke May 2006 Published by Centre for the Economics of Education London School of Economics Houghton Street...

This study estimates the average multivalued treatment effects (ATET), of preschool attendance measured in years, on students' international reading, math and science test z-scores in Grade 4. The causal treatment effects come from multiple-years observational data on three levels of preschool...