Do Peer Groups Matter? Peer Group Versus Schooling Effects on Academic Attainment

By D. Robertson, J. Symons, J. Symons Page. 2003

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ce81941a3769086209bbbffc940133dfc18d306e

Citations in the corpus

• The Effectiveness of Public, Catholic, and Non-Religious Private Schools in Chile's Voucher System (2001, unknown): “Evans et al. (1992) and Robertson and Symons (1996) are among the few empirical studies that treat peer-group variables as endogenous.”
• The Effect of Peer Socioeconomic Status on Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis (2010, unknown): “This lack of agreement is related to a substantial variation in the reported research results, which ranges from no effect at all (e.g.; Bondi, 1991; Evans, Oates & Schwab, 1992) to strong peer group effects (e.g. Ho & Willms, 1996; Robertson & Symons, 2003).”
• School Composition and Contextual Effects on Student Outcomes (2010, unknown): “Some authors have explicitly used mean SES, or various other classroom- or school-level aggregates that describe student composition, as a proxy for peer effects (Robertson & Symons, 1996; Zimmer & Toma, 1997).”
• Class Size, Education, and Wages (2003, unknown): “The same data source is used for several other studies in the UK on similar topics, such as Dolton and Vignoles (2000), Harmon and Walker (2000), Royal Economic Society 2003 Feinstein and Symons (1999), Currie and Thomas (1998), Robertson and Symons (1996), and Dearden et al. (2002).”
• The more, the better? The impact of instructional time on student performance (2017, unknown): “…on educational tracking and ability grouping provide evidence that the gains in achievement among students differ from track to track (for an overview on tracking see Betts 2011, and on instruction time and tracking Robertson and Symons 2003; Nomi and Allensworth 2009; Angelone and Moser 2012).”
• Human Capital Measurement: A Survey (2010, unknown): “Robertson and Symons (2003), for example, conclude that after controlling for peer effects, quality indicators become insignificant.”