Arbeitspapier
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing related follow-up courses and majors. We document two types of dynamic effects. First, earlier ranks are less important than later ranks. Second, responses to rank changes are asymmetric: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students’ expectations about future grades.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9040
- 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 E.
Zölitz, Ulf
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Elsner, Benjamin
- Isphording, Ingo E.
- Zölitz, Ulf
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2021
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