Arbeitspapier

Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to classes, I find that exposure to motivated classmates causally affects contemporaneous reading achievement, a peer effect that operates over and above spillovers from classmates' past achievement and socio-demographic composition. However, peer motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13872

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
motivation
personality
peer effects
Project STAR

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bietenbeck, Jan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bietenbeck, Jan
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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