Do students want to succeed? Peer group choice, social influence, and undergraduate performance
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چکیده
Students routinely choose others to partner with in studying or discussing course material. The influence of study groups on their members may differ depending upon the student-level preferences expressed in this choice. This study searches for evidence of such heterogeneity by exploiting a unique classroom experiment in study group assignment within a University of South Australia introductory economics course. Drawing a conceptual framework from the treatment effects literature, I decompose the peer effect and measure the strength and nature ∗I thank Paul Frijters, Andrew Leigh, Chikako Yamauchi, two anonymous referees, and seminar participants in the economics group of the Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University, and in the Department of Economics and Finance at the Queensland University of Technology, for helpful comments. I also acknowledge UniSA’s School of Commerce and Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis for support over the course of this project. All viewpoints expressed within the paper and errors that remain are solely my own.
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