The impact of peer personality on academic achievement

Autor: Arjan Non, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Ulf Zölitz
Přispěvatelé: Economics, University of Zurich, RS: GSBE Theme Learning and Work, RS: GSBE Theme Human Decisions and Policy Design, Macro, International & Labour Economics
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Persistence (psychology)
non
Economics and Econometrics
peer effects
media_common.quotation_subject
I24
education
J24
2002 Economics and Econometrics
Academic achievement
Affect (psychology)
Education and Inequality
Developmental psychology
ECON Department of Economics
cognitive skills
Persönlichkeit
10007 Department of Economics
i24 - Education and Inequality
Human Capital
Skills
Occupational Choice
Labor Productivity
0502 economics and business
ddc:330
Personality
Analysis of Education
050207 economics
Big Five personality traits
j24 - "Human Capital
Labor Productivity"
media_common
Studienleistung
Random assignment
05 social sciences
Peer group
non-cognitive skills
330 Economics
Facet (psychology)
Beharrlichkeit
Group
I21
Peer
Psychology
10190 Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development
i21 - Analysis of Education
Zdroj: Journal of Political Economy, 129(4), 1052-1099. University of Chicago
Journal of Political Economy, 129(4), 1052-1099. University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 0022-3808
Popis: This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE