Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom

By Victor Lavy, M. Daniele Paserman, Analía Schlosser, C. Hoxby, Damon Clark, Stephen L. Ross, Issi Romem, Yannay Spitzer, Rachel Berner. 2008

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Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2016, background): “…from the lowest and highest 1Studies that document nonlinear and/or heterogeneous peer effects include Hoxby (2000), Brodaty and Gurgand (2016), Lavy et al. (2012a), Lavy et al. (2012b), Burke and Sass (2013) and Black et al. (2013). ability tertiles in their setting of primary school students…”
School Crime Control and Prevention (2010, background): “Chronic truants are not a representative sample of the 13 A similar study that also found deleterious effects on behavior is Lavy, Paserman, and Schlosser (2008).”
Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “Even though the effects of peer composition are mixed (Hoxby 2000b, Zimmerman 2003, Angrist and Lang 2004, Hoxby and Weingarth 2006, Lavy et al. 2008, De Giorgi et al. 2009, Duflo et al. 2009), it might be the case that gender balance plays a key role in the classroom.”
Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy (2009, background): “A very fruitful exercise would be to merge register data with survey data to try to pin down the mechanisms (see Lavy et al. 2008 for a recent example).”