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The Persistent Effects of Short-Term Peer Groups in Higher Education
This paper demonstrates that short-term peer exposure can generate achievement effects which persist for several months and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students to freshmen teams. I find that the freshmen week contributes to the formation of persistent social ties. Furthermore, peers' observable characteristics impact college achievement for up to three years. Ability peer effects are non-linear, i.e. very high or low levels of average peer ability in a group harm students' grades. These effects are most pronounced for low-ability students.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11024
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Subject
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peer effects
higher education
natural experiment
gender
region of origin
ability
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Thiemann, Petra
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Thiemann, Petra
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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