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Spillovers in education choice
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2017
This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally … sets stemming from a pilot program. The pilot induced an essentially random subset of older siblings to choose advanced … math-science at a lower cost, while not directly affecting the course choices of younger siblings. We find that younger …
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Spillovers in education choice
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - In: Journal of public economics 157 (2018), pp. 158-183
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Public and parental investments, and children's skill formation
Gensowski, Miriam; Landersø, Rasmus; Dale, Philip; … - 2024
This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a longer-run follow-up study of a randomized controlled trial that increased preschool quality and initially improved skills significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is,...
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Public and parental investments, and children's skill formation
Gensowski, Miriam; Landersø, Rasmus; Dale, Philip; … - 2024
This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a longer-run follow-up study of a randomized controlled trial that increased preschool quality and initially improved skills significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063155
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Peers affect personality development
Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers along several dimensions. Students with more competitive...
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Peers affect personality development
Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers along several dimensions. Students with more competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187857
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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates
Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement combined with psychological examination records, we...
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High-performing peers and female STEM choices in school
Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing - 2019
Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There are concerns that this is related to academic choices made at an earlier age. The purpose of this paper is to examine how social environment affects women's STEM choices as...
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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 value of a peer
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Zölitz, Ulf - 2020
This paper introduces peer value-added, a new approach to quantify the total contribution of an individual peer to student performance. Peer value-added captures social spillovers irrespective of whether they are generated by observable or unobservable peer characteristics. Using data with...
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