It's not your peers, and it's not your friends: Some progress toward understanding the educational peer effect mechanism
By G. Foster. 2006
281 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Education
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In Education
- Bruce I. Sacerdote
- Heinrich W. Ursprung
- David Marmaros
- Urs Fischbacher
- Gerald Eisenkopf
- Zohal Hessami
Citations in the corpus
- Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives (2012, unknown): “JEL Classifications: B49, C93, J01, J33 Keywords: Field experiment, team incentives, social effects Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Ted Bergstrom, Tom Chang, Uri Gneezy, Michael Kuhn, Peter Kuhn, Justin Sydnor, and participants at the Southwest Economic Theory Conference 2011, Southern Cali”
- Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids. NBER Working Paper No. 14246. (2008, unknown): “The first strategy, primarily used in the higher education literature, is to exploit the random assignment of individuals to peer groups (Gigi Foster 2006; Sacerdote 2001; David J. Zimmerman 2003; Lyle 2007; Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd R. Stinebrickner 2006; Michael Kremer and Dan Levy 2008;…”
- Estimating spillovers using panel data, with an application to the classroom (2012, unknown): “Another set of papers relies on some form of random assignment (Sacerdote (2001), Zimmerman (2003), Winston and Zimmerman (2003), Foster (2006), Lehrer and Ding (2007), and Hoxby (2001)).”
- Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland (2015, background): “Other studies investigate how educational outcomes are affected by peer groups defined by race (Link and Mulligan, 1991), parents' education level (McEwan, 2003), social proximity (Foster, 2006), and ability or achievement (Arnott and Rowse, 1987; Lefgren, 2004; Eisenkopf, 2010).”
- How Do Friendships Form (2006, background): “Studies of peer effects at the university level [Sacerdote 2001; Zimmerman 2003; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner 2004; Duncan et al. 2003b; Foster 2003, 2004; Arcidiacono, Foster, and Kinsler 2003] calculate peer means at the room, hallway, and dorm level.”