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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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The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School

Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2020

counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to … high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … show that studying with more female peers in business school increases gender segregation in educational choice and affects …

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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

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Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education

Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022

We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by predictions from this framework we find that an increase in...

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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra

Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua; Nomi, Takako - 2014

We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled …

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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 effect of peer gender on major choice

Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2017

This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …

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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects

Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...

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Intensive math instruction and educational attainment : long-run impacts of double-dose algebra

Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua S.; Nomi, Takako - 2014

We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462901