The impact of classroom peers in a streaming system

Arna Vardardottir
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Arna Olafsson

Economics of Education Review, 2015, vol. 49, issue C, 110-128

Abstract: This paper investigates educational production with a focus on the influence that socio-economic status of class peers has on academic outcomes of students in a streaming system. Employing the Swiss subsample of the PISA data, I provide evidence that while classroom assignment is not random within schools or tracks it is random within tracks-by-schools. Track-by-school fixed effects therefore render peer group composition conditionally uncorrelated with students’ characteristics, while track fixed effects and school fixed effects don’t. Estimates based on track fixed-effects and school fixed-effects approaches are reduced sizably by employing a track-by-school fixed-effects approach while mean effects on test results in mathematics and problem solving remain significant.

Keywords: Education; Peer effects; Ability streaming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2015.09.002

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