Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
dc.contributor.author | Feld, Jan | |
dc.contributor.author | Zölitz, Ulf | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-30T02:11:34Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-07T02:33:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-10-30T02:11:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-07-07T02:33:47Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2015 | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students’ course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven by improved group interaction rather than adjustments in teachers’ behavior or students’effort. We further show, building on Angrist (2014), that classical measurement error in a setting where group assignment is systematic can lead to substantial overestimation of peer effects. With random assignment, as is the case in our setting, estimates are only attenuated. | en_NZ |
dc.format | en_NZ | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/19358 | |
dc.language.iso | en_NZ | |
dc.publisher | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington | en_NZ |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SEF Working paper ; 14/2015 | en_NZ |
dc.rights.rightsholder | http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sef/research/sef-working-papers | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Peer effects | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Higher education | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Measurement error | en_NZ |
dc.subject | Estimation bias | en_NZ |
dc.title | Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects | en_NZ |
dc.type | Text | en_NZ |
vuwschema.contributor.unit | School of Economics and Finance | en_NZ |
vuwschema.subject.anzsrcfor | 149999 Economics not elsewhere classified | en_NZ |
vuwschema.subject.anzsrcforV2 | 389999 Other economics not elsewhere classified | en_NZ |
vuwschema.subject.marsden | 140211 Labour Economics | en_NZ |
vuwschema.type.vuw | Working or Occasional Paper | en_NZ |