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Migrants at School: Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany

Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...

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Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Chakraborty, Tanika; Nottmeyer, Olga; Schüller, Simone; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

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Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement

Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We provide the first empirical evidence on direct sibling spillover effects in school achievement using English administrative data. Our identification strategy exploits the variation in school test scores across three subjects observed at age 11 and 16 and the variation in the composition of...

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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …

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Be as Careful of the Books You Read as of the Company You Keep: Evidence on Peer Effects in Educational Choices

Giorgi, Giacomo De; Pellizzari, Michele; Redaelli, Silvia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

students at Bocconi University and exploiting the organization of teaching at this institution, we are able to identify the … make the same choice. We estimate that, when it diverts students from majors in which they seem to have a relative ability …

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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on … quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents’ involvement in children’s education, indicating cultural complementarity …

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What Is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects

Halliday, Timothy; Kwak, Sally - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...

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What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education

Kramarz, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Ouazad, Amine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

these school-grade-year effects is achieved because students are mobile across schools. Peer effects are identified assuming …

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Peer Effects: Evidence from Secondary School Transition in England

Gibbons, Steve; Telhaj, Shqiponja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect...

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Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …

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