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Studying with higher ability peers increases student performance, yet we have little idea why. We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential mechanisms, we then estimate how effects on attitudes,...
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/16 years across 13 European countries. Both instrumental variables and school fixed effects are used for identification …. Omitting school fixed effects, as in some existing IV studies of peer effects, is shown to lead to substantial overestimates …
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student Body Mass Index (BMI). I explore heterogeneity by race, gender, and grade level. Using unconditional quantile …
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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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mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects …
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Dis-location considers the theory and empirical research behind the impact of school choice on residential segregation …-cut. When school choice measures do not depend on the proximity of pupils to their chosen schools, residential segregation … and educational inequality. One of the most vocal arguments against school choice is that the assertion that it increases …
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with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …
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