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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 - 2008

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

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Do peers affect student achievement? Evidence from Canada using group size variation

Boucher, Vincent; Bramoullé, Yann; Djebbari, Habiba; … - 2010

We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem. We investigate peer effects in student achievement in...

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Under pressure? The effect of peers on outcomes of young adults

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

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

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Peer effects: Evidence from secondary school transition in England

Gibbons, Steve; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 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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Do significant immigrant inflows create negative education impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina public school system

Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - 2012

academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a … Language Learners in the student population for students between fourth and eighth grade over the period from 1999 to 2006 and … the potential effects of the presence of these students on the level of achievement in math and reading for native …

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What is a peer? The role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects

Halliday, Timothy J.; Kwak, Sally - 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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Migrants at school: educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany

Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 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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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000

Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …

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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

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Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students

Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm P.; Redmond, Cathy - 2011

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

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