Title
On the peer effects of star students
Date Issued
12 July 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Taylor & Francis Group
Abstract
We estimate the effect that star students have on their siblings’ learning outcomes, measured by their high school grade point average (GPA) and their math grades. To this end, we couple administrative school data on grades with an unusual natural experiment in Peru that generates exogenous variation in the presence of star students at home. We find that star students increase their siblings’ GPA by 0.33 SDs and their math grades by 0.22 SDs. The effect size is inversely related to number of siblings, suggesting that the remaining siblings act as substitutes for the star student.
Start page
821
End page
825
Volume
25
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85028541014
Source
Applied Economics Letters
ISSN of the container
13504851
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