Arbeitspapier
Do peers affect student achievement in China's secondary schools?
Peer effects have figured prominently in debates on school vouchers, desegregation, ability tracking and anti-poverty programs. Compelling evidence of their existence remains scarce for plaguing endogeneity issues such as selection bias and the reflection problem. This paper is among the first to firmly establish the link between peer performance and student achievement, using a unique dataset from China. We find strong evidence that peer effects exist and operate in a positive and nonlinear manner; reducing the variation of peer performance increases achievement; and our semi-parametric estimates clarify the tradeoffs facing policymakers in exploiting positive peers effects to increase future achievement.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 1047
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Thema
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Peer Effects
Ability Grouping
Selection on observables
China
Academic performance
Teacher quality
Bildungswesen
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Bildungsverhalten
Soziale Beziehungen
Soziales Netzwerk
China
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Ding, Weili
Lehrer, Steven F.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Queen's University, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Kingston (Ontario)
- (wann)
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Ding, Weili
- Lehrer, Steven F.
- Queen's University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2006
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