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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean can have different ranks. Conditional on cardinal measures of achievement, being ranked highly during primary school has large effects on secondary school achievement, with the impact of rank being more important for boys than girls. Using additional survey data we find that the development of confidence is the most likely mechanisms for this effect on task-specific productivity.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4815

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Personnel Economics: Labor Management
Thema
rank
non-cognitive skills
peer effects
productivity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Murphy, Richard
Weinhardt, Felix
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Murphy, Richard
  • Weinhardt, Felix
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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