What makes a leader? Relative age and high school leadership

By Elizabeth Dhuey, Stephen Lipscomb. 2008

180 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6e78872f47012235bbfc56d3b10737378e33a25d

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In Education

1. S. Murphy
2. Daiji Kawaguchi
3. Stefanie K Johnson

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1. S. Murphy
2. Daiji Kawaguchi
3. Stefanie K Johnson
4. Eugene Yu Jin Tee
5. Thomas Sy
6. Jin Nam Choi

Citations in the corpus

• Actual Age at School Entry, Educational Outcomes, and Earnings (2011, background): “…(1993), Borg and Falzon (1995), and Lien et al. (2005)), are less likely to be diagnosed as having specific learning disabilities (Martin et al. (2004)), are less likely to commit suicide (Thompson et al. (1999)), and are more likely to be class leaders in high school (Dhuey and Lipscomb (2008)).”
• The benefits of a long-lens approach to leader development: Understanding the seeds of leadership (2011, background): “Dhuey and Lipscomb (2008) found that high school students who are relatively old for their grades weremore likely to emerge as high school leaders.”