On the Mechanisms of Ability Peer Effects

Arbeitspapier

Studying with higher ability peers increases student performance, yet we have little idea why. We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential mechanisms, we then estimate how effects on attitudes, parents, and teachers could drive these results. Higher-achieving peers reduce student effort, increase student university aspirations, increase parental time investments and parental strictness, and have precise null effects elsewhere. None of these mechanisms, however, explain our peer effect on test scores. Our results highlight promising avenues for understanding ability peer effects.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13938

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Higher Education; Research Institutions ; Returns to Education ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
• Thema: random assignment ; standardized test ; parental investments ; school inputs ; mediation analysis

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): de Gendre, Alexandra ; Salamanca, Nicolás
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232690
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ