Peer effects in private and public schools across countries

By R. Zimmer, E. Toma. 2000

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Peer effects on student achievement: evidence from Chile (2003, background): “1 Several authors find that higher mean levels of school or classroom socioeconomic status are associated with higher individual achievement (Link & Mulligan, 1991; Robertson & Symons, 1996; Willms, 1986; Zimmer & Toma, 2000).”
Publicly Provided Education (2002, background): “Peer effects have been considered in an international context by Zimmer and Toma (2000).”
Aiming High and Falling Short (2015, background): “These changes in classroom composition may have independent consequences on student learning (Nomi, 2012; Zimmer & Toma, 2000), as well as effects on teacher instructional content and methods (McPartland & Schneider, 1996).”
Neighborhood Schools, Choice, and the Distribution of Educational Benefits (2000, background): “An arbitrary finite perturbation of the residences across neighborhoods beginning with 1 2 would generally imply differences in the peer measures.”
The Effect of Peer Socioeconomic Status on Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis (2010, neutral): “In one of the estimates of Zimmer & Toma (2000), average SES referred to skilled versus unskilled level of father’s occupation.”
Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement (2003, background): “Hanushek (1972, 1992) finds no peer achievement effects, while Henderson et al. (1976), Summers and Wolfe (1977) and Zimmer and Toma (2000) report positive influences of higher achieving peers, at least for some students.”
Immigrants’ educational disadvantage: an examination across ten countries and three surveys (2007, background): “Literature estimating peer effects on educational outcomes generally reports a positive influence of higher achieving peers on students’ achievement (Hanushek et al. 2003; Zimmer and Toma 2000 ).”
Impacts of a prekindergarten program on children's mathematics, language, literacy, executive function, and emotional skills. (2013, background): “Among older students, having higher achieving peers from higher income families can affect individual children’s achievement, particularly for lower ability students or those from poorer backgrounds (Zimmer & Toma, 2000).”
Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions (2005, background): “Further literature addresses specific issues such as school resources (Betts, 2001; Hanushek, 2003; Hoxby, 2000), the use of streaming in schools (Cappellari, 2004; Figlio and Page, 2000), the effects of private versus public schools (Figlio and Ludwig, 2000; Neal, 1997; Vandenberghe and Robin, 2004”