What can be learned about peer effects using college roommates? Evidence from new survey data and students from disadvantaged backgrounds

By Ralph Stinebrickner, Todd R. Stinebrickner. 2006

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Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees. NBER Working Paper No. 15291. (2009, neutral): “4 2007; Sacerdote, 2001; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner, 2006; and Zimmerman, 2003), but results for elementary and secondary education are more mixed with some studies finding little or no effects (e.g., Angrist and Lang, 2004; Burke and Sass, 2008; Hanushek et al., 2003; Vigdor and Nechyba,…”
PEER EFFECTS IN ECONOMIC ATTITUDES (2014, neutral): “Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2006) define relevant peers as those with “potential influence.””
From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of Endogenous Peer Group Formation (2013, neutral): “2For recent studies in higher education, see Sacerdote (2001), Zimmerman (2003), Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2006), Carrell, Fullerton, and West (2009), Carrell, Malmstrom, and West (2008), Foster (2006), Lyle (2007).”
Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, neutral): “See e.g. Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2006).”
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.”
Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams* (2018, neutral): “6These studies are related to a broader literature on the peer effects of randomly assigned roommates (e.g., Sacerdote, 2011; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner, 2006; Zimmerman, 2003).”
Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far? (2011, background): “Hoel, Parker, and Rivenburg (2005) find strong nonlinear effects from roommates and no detectable effects from peers in the same classroom.11 Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2006) shows that roommate ACT is less important than roommate high school GPA and that a peer effect on hours spent studying…”
The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses (2008, background): “…in social outcomes than in academic outcomes.28) Because we measure both endogenously and exogenously determined friends, we do not interpret any of these associations as causal.29 28 Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2006) point out that it is not clear where to look for the most influential peers.”
Identification and Estimation of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments (2017, background): “For instance, Sacerdote (2001), Zimmerman (2003) and Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2006) exploit random (or random-like) assignment of college roommates, while Lyle (2007) and Carrell, Fullerton, and West (2009) study the case of random assignment into peer groups in West Point and the Air Force…”