Resource and peer impacts on girls' academic achievement : Evidence from a randomized experiment
By D. Whitmore. 2005
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Subfields: Education
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- Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation (2020, background): “For important studies on the impact of peer gender on performance, see Whitmore (2005), Lavy and Schlosser (2011), De Giorgi, Pellizzari, and Woolston (2012), Oosterbeek and Ewijk (2014) as well as Hill (2015).”
- Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank (2018, unknown): “First, the classic peer effects papers typically consider the mean characteristics of others in the group (Sacerdote, 2001; Whitmore, 2005; Kremer & Levy, 2008; Carrell et al., 2009; Lavy et al., 2012).”
- Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns: Theory and Evidence (2017, unknown): “Whitmore (2005) uses data from the project STAR experiment in Tennessee, that randomly allocated kindergartners to classrooms.3 Finally, Carrell, Sacerdote, and West (2013) conduct an experiment that changes the allocation of students to squadrons in the U.S. Air Force Academy.4 As noted by Angrist…”
- Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far? (2011, methodology): “Whitmore (2005) exploits experimental variation in Project Star to examine separately the effects from percent female and the effects from having higher achieving peers.”
- The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores (2013, unknown): “18 Whitmore, 2005, finds mixed results when studying performance in US kindergarten and primary schools.”