Arbeitspapier
Achievement rank affects performance and major choices in college
This paper studies how a student's ordinal achievement rank affects performance and specialization choices in university. We exploit data from a setting where students are randomly assigned to teaching sections and find that students with a higher rank in their section achieve higher grades, become more likely to graduate, and are more likely to choose related follow-up courses and majors. These effects are stronger for men who, in contrast to women, respond to a higher rank with an increase in their study effort. Our results highlight that social comparisons with peers can have lasting effects on students' careers.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 300
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Thema
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Rank
social comparisons
higher education
peer effects
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Elsner, Benjamin
Isphording, Ingo Eduard
Zölitz, Ulf
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Zurich, Department of Economics
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Zurich
- (wann)
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2018
- DOI
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doi:10.5167/uzh-156880
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Elsner, Benjamin
- Isphording, Ingo Eduard
- Zölitz, Ulf
- University of Zurich, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2018
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