Peer quality or input quality?
Subtitle: evidence from trinidad and tobago
By: C. Kirabo Jackson
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16598; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16598.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers, I obtain credible estimates of (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2) the direct effect of peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population.  While students at schools with higher-achieving peers have better academic achievement, within-school increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high-achievement schools.  Peer quality can account for about one tenth of school value-added on average, but over one-third among the top quartile of schools.  The results reveal large and important differences by gender"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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