Students' beliefs about peer effects

Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 108, issue 3, 260-263

Abstract: We propose a simple short-cut to the problem of estimating endogenous peer effects from observed behavior: asking students about peers' ability and their own effort. Our survey evidence indicates that students believe in own-peer complementarities in educational production.

Keywords: Peer; effects; Education; Endogenous; effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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