Peer effects in education: a survey of the theory and evidence. Handbook of Social Economics, 1. North Holland, pp. 1053- 1163.Dennis Epple and Richard Romano. Peer effects in education: A survey of the theory and evidence. Handbook of social economics, 1(11):1053-1163, 2011....
Peer effects in education: a survey of the theory and evidence Handbook of social economics, Vol. 1, Elsevier (2011), pp. 1053-1163 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Feld and Zölitz, 2017 J. Feld, U. Zölitz Understanding peer effects: on the nature, estimation, and ...
Second, although many studies have examined the peer effects on academic performance and other non-cognitive outcomes, few studies have explored the peer effects on educational and occupational expectations. Thus, this study expands the literature on peer effects in education. More generally, by ...
`Peer effects in higher education: Does the field of study matter?', Economic Inquiry 48(3): 621-634.Brunello, Giorgio, Maria de Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa, (2010) `Peer effects in higher education: Does the field of study matter?', Economic Inquiry forthcoming....
But as we've looked more closely at those "peer effects," we have encountered an increasingly complicated, subtle, and often slippery set of issues: at base, not much is known about peer effects in higher education, despite their potential importance. The purpose of this paper is, in a ...
PeerEffectsintheClassroom Peer Effects in the Classroom "Students who are exposed to unusually low achieving cohorts tend to score lower themselves." How can advanced economies get the biggest increase in human capital for their education dollar? That is, how productive are their investments in ...
Although important both for educational production (e.g. Sacerdote 2001) and the formation of entrepreneurial activity (e.g. Nanda and Sørensen 2010), the effects of social interactions on the development of entrepreneurial skills in entrepreneurship education have been completely ignored so far. ...
The goal of this paper is to develop predictions regarding market consequences of peer effects in higher education and to offer empirical evidence about the extent to which those predictions are borne out in the data. We develop a model in which colleges seek to maximize the quality of the edu...
Because of concerns about potential selection bias resulting from non-random college enrollment patterns, research on peer effects in higher education have tended to examine particular academic settings where certain peer groups are randomly or quasi-randomly assigned. Using data from a middle-sized publ...
Using data from the China Educational Panel Survey and a quasi-experimental design, we show that the impact of classmates' parental education on test scores is significantly stronger for local students than for migrant students in urban schools. These differential effects are largely driven by rural...