The Good, the Bad, and the Average: Evidence on Ability Peer Effects in Schools

By Victor Lavy, Olmo Silva, Felix Weinhardt. Journal of Labor Economics, 2012

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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank (2018, unknown): “While other studies have examined more complex relationships (Lavy et al., 2012), the common theme amongst them all is that individuals benefit from being surrounded by higher-performing peers.”
The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives (2017, unknown): “On the other hand, the even columns, 26 In British schools, Lavy et al. (2012) find greater sensitivity of girls than boys to peer effects in British schools, while Gibbons and Telhaj (2012) find no difference.”
Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2016, background): “…from the lowest and highest 1Studies that document nonlinear and/or heterogeneous peer effects include Hoxby (2000), Brodaty and Gurgand (2016), Lavy et al. (2012a), Lavy et al. (2012b), Burke and Sass (2013) and Black et al. (2013). ability tertiles in their setting of primary school students…”
Behavioral Economics of Education (2015, background): “While linear-in- eans models only find moderate effects of having high ability peers in the class, nonlinear models often reveal substantial ffects (e.g., Lavy et al., 2012).”