Do girl peers improve your academic performance?

Feng Hu ()

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 137, issue C, 54-58

Abstract: I study gender peer effects on students’ academic performance in China by exploiting the random within-grade-by-school variation in the share of females in the classroom. I find a higher share of girl peers improves students’ academic performance, especially for boys.

Keywords: Peer effects; Academic performance; Female peers; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.10.025

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