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Grades, aspirations and post-secondary education outcomes

Christofides, Louis N.; Hoy, Michael; Milla, Joniada; … - 2012

We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. We find that parental expectations and peer...

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Educational Production, Endogenous Peer Group Formation and Class Composition - Evidence from the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael - 2003

other school quality measures on students' outcomes. This paper analyses the effect of achievement heterogeneity and …

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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

A variety of public campaigns, including the Just Say No campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to Just Say No to Drugs, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on the...

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Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Rønning, Marte - 2011

This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set...

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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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Identification of peer effects with missing peer data: Evidence from Project STAR

Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2011

students. Data are not missing at random, making identification challenging. The paper develops new ways, given random …-achieving students benefit more than higher-achieving students do from increases in peer mean. Further, the bias in a widely used, poorly …

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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?

van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009

the status of the entrepreneur. For reasons outlined in the introduction, this study focuses on (800) students in the … Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …

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How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children

Ohinata, Asako; van Ours, Jan C. - 2011

In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...

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