Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197790 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CHCP Working Paper No. 2018-4
Publisher: 
The University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP), London (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper examines academic peer effects in college. Unique new data from the Berea Panel Study allow us to focus on a mechanism wherein a student's peers affect her achievement by changing her study effort. Although the potential relevance of this mechanism has been recognized, data limitations have made it difficult to provide direct evidence about its importance. We find that a student's freshman grade point average is affected by the amount her peers studied in high school, suggesting the importance of this mechanism. Using time diary information, we confirm that college study time is actually being affected.
Subjects: 
Peer effects
Time use
Higher education
Mechanisms
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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