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The Effect of Higher-Achieving Peers on Major Choices and Labor Market Outcomes
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
evidence that women who have been exposed to higher achieving male peers end up in jobs in which they are more satisfied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225626
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186792
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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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The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School
Zölitz, Ulf - 2020
high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to …'s major choices and labor market outcomes. We find that women who are randomly assigned to teaching sections with more female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829936
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The effect of peer gender on major choice in business school
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2020
high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to …'s major choices and labor market outcomes. We find that women who are randomly assigned to teaching sections with more female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239613
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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
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The effect of peer gender on major choice
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2017
outcomes. Women who are randomly assigned to more female peers become less likely to choose male-dominated majors, they end up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752332
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175805
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Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education
Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022
predictions from this framework we find that an increase in the share of low-income peers within school-cohorts improves the … that social cohesion, through better connections in the school network, has an important role in mitigating the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240565
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Reference dependent aspirations and peer effects in education
Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022
predictions from this framework we find that an increase in the share of low-income peers within school-cohorts improves the … that social cohesion, through better connections in the school network, has an important role in mitigating the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471214