Peer Effects in Higher Education

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Improving the Targeting of Treatment (2012, background): “…students who are incorrectly assigned to college-level coursework might not only do worse academically than they would have otherwise, they might depress the achievement of their better-prepared peers (Carrell, Fullerton, & West, 2009; Sacerdote, 2001; Winston & Zimmerman, 2004; Zimmerman, 2003).”
The Influence of Institutional Retention Climates on Student Persistence to Degree Completion: A Multilevel Approach (2009, background): “This finding was confirmed in a single-institution study of Dartmouth freshmen (Sacerdote 2001) and a later study of 5,400 students attending three highly selective colleges ( Winston and Zimmerman 2004 ).”
Quality Matters: Assessing the Impact of Attending More Selective Institutions on College Completion Rates of Minorities (2008, background): “and Schuh 2006); smaller classes and even easier grading (Bowen and Bok 1998); and peer effects (Newman and Riesman 1980; Zimmerman and Winston 2004).”