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The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random assignment of teachers and students to classes in Project STAR, I document three sets of causal impacts: students who are exposed to repeaters (1) score lower on standardized tests at the end of kindergarten, an effect that fades out in later grades; (2) show persistent improvements in non-cognitive skills such as effort and discipline; and (3) are more likely to graduate from high school and to take a college entrance exam around the age of eighteen. I show that the positive spillovers from repeaters on long-term educational attainment are likely driven by the differential accumulation of non-cognitive skills by repeater-exposed students during childhood. The improvements in these skills are in turn a result of behavioral adjustments by teachers, students, or parents to the presence of low-achieving repeaters in the classroom.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9449
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Thema
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peer effects
long-term outcomes
non-cognitive skills
Project STAR
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bietenbeck, Jan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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- Arbeitspapier
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- Bietenbeck, Jan
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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- 2015
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