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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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Fostering non-cognitive skills and academic performance : experimental evidence from women’s-only colleges in Pakistan
Haroon, Maryiam; Said, Farah; Zafar, Mahniya - In: Journal of Asian economics 81 (2022), pp. 1-17
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549930
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Peer and parental influence in academic performance and alcohol use
Balsa, Ana Inés; Gandelman, Néstor; Roldán, Flavia - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 55 (2018), pp. 41-55
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130198
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When you say nothing at all : the predictive power of student effort on surveys
Hitt, Collin; Trivitt, Julie; Cheng, Albert - In: Economics of education review 52 (2016), pp. 105-119
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586591
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Parental involvement, parenting style, secondary school student attitude towards schooling and academic performance in Kenya
Njagi, Simon Njogu; Migosi, Joash Abere; Mwania, Jonathan M. - In: International journal of education economics and development 5 (2014) 2, pp. 152-171
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Parents' Socioeconomic Profile, Students' Family Structure, Family Size and Their Nonacademic Problems
Bocar, Anna C. - 2017
This study examined the socioeconomic status (SES) of the participants' parents, family structure, family size and the … nuclear family structure. The few of the participants are living with extended family and few also are raised by single parent … assurance that one could get a high paying job; however, educated parents still send their children to school despite their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958025
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China's only children and their spillover effects on academic performance in the classroom
Wang, Haining; Zhu, Rong - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 19 (2019) 4, pp. 1-10
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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
in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517456
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The impact of zero-COVID policies on academic performance : evidence from primary and secondary students in China
Su, Yaqin; Xia, Anping; Gong, Da; Yan, Andong - In: Journal of Asian economics 93 (2024), pp. 1-15
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014631213
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On the wrong track? : perceived track mismatch among ethnic minority and majority students in the German educational system
Diehl, Claudia; Pomianowicz, Katja; Hinz, Thomas - 2024
Based on an innovative survey of seventh graders in German secondary schools, this paper analyzes students' feelings that they should be on a higher educational track, We show that ethnic minority students are not only more likely than majority students to be placed in the lowest track, but they...
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