Self-selection of peers and performance

Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch () and Sebastian Schaube ()

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series from University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany

Abstract: In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. Using a framed field experiment at secondary schools, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We find that self-selection improves performance by approximately 15% of a standard deviation relative to randomly assigned peers. Our results document peer effects in multiple characteristics and show that self-selection changes these characteristics. However, a decomposition reveals that variations in the peer composition contribute only little to the estimated average treatment effects. Rather, we find that self-selection has a direct effect on performance.

Keywords: Framed field experiment; Peer effects; Self-selection; Peer assignment rules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D01 I20 J24 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 76
Date: 2019-08
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