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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2019
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2019: 30 Jahre Mauerfall - Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft - Session: Education Economics II No. B17-V1
Verlag: 
ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel, Hamburg
Zusammenfassung: 
Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on sociological theory and using spatial regression techniques, I introduce social network matrices that correspond to a weighting scheme for peers within the class. In a spatial regression, I show the presence of peer effects for the 8th grade population in the USA in the TIMSS 2015 student assessment. For students, the likelihood of cooperation increases conditional on visible and non-visible characteristics, i.e., age, gender, foreign origin, or scholastic achievement. Externalities of scholastic performance show a larger magnitude than the direct effects on the individual. The results are robust to various definitions of how peer groups are created, e.g., classroom-average, status homophily or value homophily and to the inclusion of school level fixed effects.
Schlagwörter: 
Human Capital
Cognitive Skills
Peer Effects
Spatial Model
Class Heterogeneity
Education Production Function
JEL: 
I21
D62
C31
C18
D91
Dokumentart: 
Conference Paper

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