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Bad Company: Understanding negative peer effects in college achievement
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In this article, a 17-year history of the random assignment of students to peer groups at the U.S. Naval Academy was studied and the authors found negative effects at the broader company level and positive effects at a narrower course-company level within small peer groups.About:
This article is published in European Economic Review.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Peer feedback & Peer group.read more
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How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine both the importance of peer-to-peer teaching and the interaction between P2P teaching and ability tracking and find that peer-teaching improves learning among low-ability subjects, but the positive effects are substantially offset by tracking.
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First impressions in the classroom: How do class characteristics affect student grades and majors?
Amanda L. Griffith,Joyce B. Main +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used data on first-year engineering students at a large, selective engineering school to investigate how peer gender, race, and ability, as well as instructor gender, can impact grades and persistence in engineering.
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Do peer effects influence the academic performance of rural students at private migrant schools in China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined peer effects on the academic performance of rural migrant students at both the class level and the individual level and found that peer effects exist among the migrant students.
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Peer effects among graduate students: Evidence from China
Guanfu Fang,Shan Wan +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined peer effects among graduate students in a Chinese university, and found that a student's master GPA is positively associated with his roommates' college GPA, and that the peer effects are driven by the spillover of peer intelligence or effort level.
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Peer effects in marathon racing: The role of pace setters
Jamie Emerson,Brian Hill +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on marathon races with pace setters and identify exogenous peer effects by identifying variation in peer performance and ability that is exogenous, using data on elite male runners from 2009 to 2014 marathons in Berlin, Chicago, and London.
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Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem
TL;DR: The authors examined the reflection problem that arises when a researcher observing the distribution of behaviour in a population tries to infer whether the average behaviour in some group influences the behaviour of the individuals that comprise the group.
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Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a unique data set to measure peer effects among college age roommates and found that in this group, peer effects are very important in determining levels of academic effort and in decisions to join social groups such as fraternities.
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Cohesion and performance in groups: A meta-analytic clarification of construct relations
TL;DR: The results of the authors' meta-analyses revealed stronger correlations between cohesion and performance when performance was defined as behavior (as opposed to outcome), when it was assessed with efficiency measures, and as patterns of team workflow became more intensive.
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Peers at Work
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of her co-workers in a group production process, and find strong evidence of positive productivity spillovers from the introduction of highly productive personnel into a shift.
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Peers at Work
Alexandre Mas,Enrico Moretti +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether, how, and why the productivity of a worker depends on coworkers in the same team and find strong evidence of positive productiv ity spillovers from the introduction of highly productive personnel into a shift.