Female Neighbors, Test Scores, and Careers

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Yi Zhang

No 2023-06, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors—their gender—affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. Using new administrative data for the universe of students in consecutive cohorts in Greece, we find that a higher share of female neighbors improves both male and female students’ high school and university outcomes. We also find that female students are more likely to

Keywords: neighbor gender peer effects; cohort-to-cohort random variat; birth gender composition; geodata; STEM university degrees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-05-01
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