Educational peer effects and the Chicago public schools

By Lars Lefgren. 2004

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Peer Effects in Program Participation (2014, unknown): “…Kugler, and Sacerdote (forthcoming), Jacob (2004), Katz, Kling, and Liebman (2001), Kling, Liebman, and Katz (2007), Kremer and Levy (2008), Lefgren (2004), Ludwig, Duncan, and Hirschfield (2001), Mas and Moretti (2009), Sacerdote (2001), Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2006), and…”
Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors (2010, unknown): “…contemporaneous teacher effects may decay relatively quickly over time,2 and Rothstein (2010) finds evidence that the nonrandom place- 1 Jacob and Lefgren (2004) find that principal evaluations of teachers were the best predictor of student achievement; Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor (2006,…”
Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence (2009, unknown): “Other studies that have looked directly at peer effects in an educational setting include Boozer and Cacciola (2001), Hanushek et al. (2003), Lefgren (2004) and Burke and Sass (2008).”
Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom (2008, unknown): “Lefgren (2004) and Gibbons and Telhaj (2008) use lagged outcome measures as the key peer characteristic.”
Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far? (2011, methodology): “Lefgren (2004) reaches the same conclusion using data on 3rd and 6th graders in the Chicago Public Schools.”
Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation (2020, background): “As students are typically not assigned to schools at random, the existing peer effects studies try to overcome this identification problem by exploiting natural variation in cohort composition within a given school across time (Bifulco, Fletcher, and Ross 2011; Carrell and Hoekstra, 2010; Carrell, H”
Peer Effects in Academic Cheating (2012, background): “…Frederick V. Malmstrom, Fred.Malmstrom@usafa.edu; and James E. West, Jim.West@usafa.edu [Submitted December 2005; accepted (Bayer, Pintoff, and Pozen 2005) and academic achievement across classrooms and schools (Graham 2006; Hanushek, et al. 2003; Hoxby and Weingarth 2006; Lefgren 2004).”
Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids. NBER Working Paper No. 14246. (2008, unknown): “Conversely, we find troubled children from both high- and low-income families cause statistically significant increases in misbehavior, but the increase in misbehavior occurs primarily among children from low-income families.”
Identifying Social Interactions through Excess Variance Contrasts (2005, methodology): “Lefgren (2004), using elementary school data from the Chicago Public schools system, reports a statistically significant best estimate of β consistent with a very small social multiplier of about 1.05.”