Classroom or pub - Where are persistent peer relationships between university students formed?

Thomas Fischer and Johannes Rode

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, vol. 178, issue C, 474-493

Abstract: This paper discusses the formation of peers in an anonymous higher education setting using a unique data set of industrial engineering students. For identification, we exploit the random assignment of students into groups and student performance before students met. We compare two different settings for potential peer formation: a voluntary freshman orientation week organized by the students’ union and a mandatory group work course. It is only in the case of the group work course that we report persistent impacts on subsequent academic achievement. In line with our theoretical reasoning, peer effects exist between groups of two students who were already similar before.

Keywords: Peer effects; Higher education; Social network formation; Homophily (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268120302419
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: Classroom or Pub - Where are Persistent Peer Relationships between University Students Formed? (2020)
Working Paper: Classroom or Pub - Where are Persistent Peer Relationships between University Students Formed? (2020)
Working Paper: Classroom or Pub – Where are Persistent Peer Relationships between University Students Formed? (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jeborg:v:178:y:2020:i:c:p:474-493

DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.07.019

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization is currently edited by Houser, D. and Puzzello, D.

More articles in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().