Middle-achieving students are also my peers: The impact of peer effort on academic performance

Xiaoqi Dong, Yinhe Liang and Shuang Yu

Labour Economics, 2023, vol. 80, issue C

Abstract: This paper provides evidence of a new peer effect structure by showing that middle-achieving peers influence academic achievement. By exploiting the random assignment of students to classes within middle schools, we find that students perform better in the presence of hardworking middle-achieving peers. We examine the role of a better classroom environment, motivated learning attitudes, and responsible teachers as key mechanisms. Low- (vs. high-) achieving students are more strongly affected in terms of academic performance and learning attitude by middle-achieving peers’ positive spillovers. Therefore, teachers should give due consideration to middle-achieving students.

Keywords: Middle-achieving peers; Hardworking; Student performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102310

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