Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across … background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable estimates of peer effects in standard OLS specifications. The size of … survey data, and selection plays little role in biasing peer effects estimates. We find no significant evidence of non …