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| Title: | | Institutional Ethos, Peers and Individual Outcomes  |
| Authors: | | Zimmerman, David J. Rosenblum, David Hillman, Preston |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | WPEHE discussion paper series / Williams College, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education 68 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper we present estimates of roommate and institution based peer effects. Using data from the College & Beyond survey, the Freshman survey, and phonebook data that allows us to identify college roommates – we estimate models of students? political persuasion and intellectual engagement. The evidence suggests that a student?s roommate?s political sentiments have some impact on their own political views later in life. We also implement a cluster based analysis that attempts to answer the question: how would a student?s outcomes have changed if they?d attended a very different school? Our findings suggest that student outcomes are, indeed, sensitive to the school they attend. Similar students attending schools that have a decidedly different ?ethos? differ in important ways post-college. Institutional peer effects seem to have a powerful effect on student outcomes. |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WPEHE Discussion Paper Series, Williams College
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