Do Peers Influence Achievement in High School Economics? Evidence from Georgia's Economics End of Course Test

Autor:	John R. Swinton, Benjamin Scafidi, Christopher Clark
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Selection bias Economics and Econometrics Simultaneity media_common.quotation_subject Economics education Control (management) Instrumental variable Academic achievement Education Test (assessment) ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education Achievement test Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	The Journal of Economic Education. 42:3-18
ISSN:	2152-4068 0022-0485
DOI:	10.1080/00220485.2011.536486
Popis:	The authors provide the first estimates of the impact of peers on achievement in high school economics. The estimates are obtained by analyzing three years of data on all high school students who take Georgia's required economics course and its accompanying high-stakes End of Course Test (Georgia Department of Education). They use an instrumental variables approach with teacher-level fixed effects to control for selection bias, simultaneity, measurement error in the measure of peer quality, and nonrandom assignment of teachers to students. The authors find that an increase of one standard deviation in the prior academic achievement of peers increases achievement in economics by 0.03 standard deviation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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