Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment
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Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment∗
A growing literature in the economics of education emphasizes the importance of peer effects in determining students’ academic outcomes. Most of the existing empirical literature uses natural experiments in which students are randomly assigned to peer groups to identify the causal effect of peer characteristics. However, their results provide no direct evidence regarding the policy-relevant pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2793473