Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation

By C. Hoxby. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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3. Ludger Woessmann
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1. Bruce I. Sacerdote
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5. Ludger Wößmann
6. Stephen Machin
7. Ludger Woessmann
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Citations in the corpus

• New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement (2009, methodology): “This approach, which builds on the intuition that students close in age in the same school have many similar experiences, has been used in a variety of circumstances (e.g., Ehrenberg and Brewer 1995; Ferguson and Ladd 1996; and more recently by Hoxby 2000 in a study of racial composition effects).”
• Ethnic Environment During Childhood and the Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children in Sweden (2010, result): “tends to depress school achievement (Boozer, Krueger, and Wolkon 1992; Grogger 1996; Cutler and Glaeser 1997; Hoxby 2000; Hanushek et al. 2002), but the empirical findings are mixed, probably due to differences in methodology and in data (Hanushek et al.”
• Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions (2009, background): “Hoxby (2000) identifies peer effects from gender and race variation.”
• High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School (2020, background): “A number of studies have shown that girls and boys benefit academically from an increase in the number of female peers in school (Hoxby 2000; Lavy and Schlosser 2011).”
• Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes - Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform (2015, neutral): “12 A Swedish municipality is similar to a school district in the U.S. or LEA in the U.K. in that it is the administrative economic unit as regards to the schools located in the area.”
• Empirics of the Identification of Social Interactions: An Evaluation of the Approaches and Their Results (2006, neutral): “Hoxby, 2000). Reference groups defined on basis of geographical proximity are used by Solon et al. (2000) who”