The impact of peer achievement and peer heterogeneity on own achievement growth: Evidence from school transitions

David Kiss

No 141, Working Papers from Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)

Abstract: This paper estimates ability peer effects on achievement growth in reading and math. It exploits variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition from primary to secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth-graders. As will be discussed in detail, this variation is exogenous in large parts. Results are similar for both achievement measures: pupils benefit from abler peers, but high-achievers do so to a smaller extent. The estimated impact of the variance in peer skills is negative, but insignificant.

Keywords: ability peer effects in upper-secondary school; natural experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2013-09
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