Do peers affect student achievement in china's secondary schools?
By: Weili Ding, Steven F. Lehrer
Contributors: Lehrer, Steven F.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12305; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12305.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "Peer effects have figured prominently in debates on school vouchers, desegregation, ability tracking and anti-poverty programs.  Compelling evidence of their existence remains scarce for plaguing endogeneity issues such as selection bias and the reflection problem.  This paper firmly establishes a link between peer performance and student achievement, using a unique dataset from China.  We find strong evidence that peer effects exist and operate in a positive and nonlinear manner; reducing the variation of peer performance increases achievement; and our semi-parametric estimates clarify the tradeoffs facing policymakers in exploiting positive peers effects to increase future achievement"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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