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Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. - 2002

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Inside the "black Box" of Project STAR : estimation of peer effects using experimental data

Boozer, Michael A.; Cacciola, Stephen E. - 2001

The credible identification of endogenous peer group effects - i.e. social multiplier or feedback effects - has long eluded social scientists. We argue that such effects are most credibly identified by a randomly assigned social program which operates at differing intensities within and between...

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The long-term effects of early track choice

Dustmann, Christian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Schönberg, Uta - 2014

effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a … favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school … exposure to a less advanced school environment. …

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Good schools or good students? : evidence on school effects from universal random assignment of students to high schools

Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian; Kim, Beomsoo; Malamud, Ofer - 2022

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

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Essays on human capital acquisition

Babcock, Philip - 2005

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An empirical analysis of 'acting white'

Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.>; Torelli, Paul - 2005

"There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...