Peer effects in secondary education: Evidence from trends in mathematics and science study 2015 based on weak-tie bonds

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Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on sociological theory and using spatial regression techniques, I introduce social network matrices that correspond to a weighting scheme for peers within the class. In a spatial regression, I show the presence of peer effects for the 8th grade population in the USA in the TIMSS 2015 student assessment. For students, the likelihood of cooperation increases conditional on visible and non-visible characteristics, i.e., age, gender, foreign origin, or scholastic achievement. Externalities of scholastic performance show a larger magnitude than the direct effects on the individual. The results are robust to various definitions of how peer groups are created, e.g., classroom-average, status homophily or value homophily and to the inclusion of school level fixed effects.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2019: 30 Jahre Mauerfall - Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft - Session: Education Economics II ; No. B17-V1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Externalities ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models ; Methodological Issues: General ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
• Subject: Human Capital ; Cognitive Skills ; Peer Effects ; Spatial Model ; Class Heterogeneity ; Education Production Function

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dannemann, Bernhard C.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel, Hamburg
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/203485
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET