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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014
This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive … achievement, being ranked highly during primary school has large effects on secondary school achievement, with the impact of rank … most likely mechanisms for this effect on task-specific productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398570
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Top of the class: The importance of ordinal rank
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019
This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting … estimate the impact of class rank. We find large effects on test scores, confidence, and subject choice during secondary school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141900
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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019 - This version: June 2019
This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting … estimate the impact of class rank. We find large effects on test scores, confidence, and subject choice during secondary school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118593
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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - CESifo - 2014
This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive … achievement, being ranked highly during primary school has large effects on secondary school achievement, with the impact of rank … most likely mechanisms for this effect on task-specific productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779409
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In brief...Top of the class
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Boys may be better off not going to the school with high-performing peers, according to research by Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt, which explores how much impact there is on later confidence and exam results from where a child ranks in primary school. They find that being ranked in the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721421
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The Importance of Rank Position
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We find an individual's rank within their reference group has effects on later objective outcomes. To evaluate the … impact of local rank, we use a large administrative dataset tracking over two million students in England from primary … through to secondary school. Academic rank within primary school has sizable, robust and significant effects on later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692131
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The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401711
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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/10011784303
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The long-term impacts of low-achieving childhood peers : evidence from project STAR
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2015
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376244
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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