Does It Matter When Your Smartest Peers Leave Your Class? Evidence from Hungary

Fritz Schiltz (), Deni Mazrekaj, Daniel Horn and Kristof De Witte
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Fritz Schiltz: Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven, Belgium

No 1804, Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market from Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies

Abstract: Elite schools in Hungary cherry pick high achieving students from general primary schools. The geographical coverage of elite schools has remained unchanged since 1999, when the establishment of new elite schools stopped. We exploit this geographical variation in the immobile Hungarian society and estimate the impact of high achieving peers leaving the class on student achievement, behaviour, and aspirations for higher education. Our estimates indicate moderate but heterogeneous effects on those left behind in general primary schools.

Keywords: peer-effects; early-selection; IV estimates; FE estimates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2018-11
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