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-achieving students and no significant effects among low achievers. Students in top tracking enjoyed multiple advantages, particularly a … concentration of high-performing peers and a very homogeneous classroom, that facilitated the teacher's work and increased students …' effort l evels. Bimodal classes fostered greater effort levels among top students, while teachers induced less competition …
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effect on the individual decision to attend university and observe stronger peer effects among groups of students of similar …
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We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …
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estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …
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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive 'peer effects'. Yet standard, linear-in-means models of peer effects (a) implicitly assume that segregation is zero sum, with gains and losses to rich and poor perfectly offsetting, and (b) rule out...
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Purpose - While many business schools use large classes for the sake of efficiency, faculty and students tend to … results indicate that students perceive lower levels of teacher interaction and satisfaction in larger classes. Originality … business education. The results reveal the influential roles of academic and social engagements on educational outcomes …
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This paper evaluates the diffusion of peer effects on academic achievement of 4th grade students in the Brazilian …
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This paper investigates peer effects in the academic achievement of Costa Rican students. Two measures of peer effects … needs. These results are robust for mathematics, reading and science. Results from quantile regression reveal that students … (mathematics and reading). Meanwhile, students with low academic achievement are the most affected by studying in poorer districts …
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This research uses CHIP(China Household Income Project) data of 2018 to examine the impact of higher education … in urban China. These results suggest that spatial differences in opportunities of higher education significantly …
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