The Impact of Study Groups and Roommates on Academic Performance

Tarun Jain and Mudit Kapoor ()

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, vol. 97, issue 1, 44-54

Abstract: This paper uses random assignment of students to investigate the impact of study groups and roommates on academic achievement. We find that informal social interaction with roommates has a significant positive impact on academic achievement, while study group peers have no discernible impact, a result driven by group heterogeneity in ability. We also find that lower-ability students benefit from high-ability students but not vice versa. © 2015 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Keywords: academic achievement; roommate; study group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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