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Peer group effects in the academic performance of Italian students
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Abstract We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students' average grade in exams passed during their Second Level Degree course on the basis of their pre-determined measures of abilities, personal characteristics and peer group abilities. Thanks to a ri... view more
We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students' average grade in exams passed during their Second Level Degree course on the basis of their pre-determined measures of abilities, personal characteristics and peer group abilities. Thanks to a rich administrative dataset, we are able to build a variety of definitions of peer groups, describing different kinds of students' interaction, based on classes attended together or exams taken in the same session. Self-selection problems are handled through Two-Stage Least Squares estimations using as an instrument, the exogenous assigning of students to different teaching classes in the compulsory courses attended during their First Level Degree course. We find statistically significant positive peer group effects, which are robust to the different definitions of peer group and to different measures of abilities.... view less
Classification
Sociology of Education
University Education
Free Keywords
peer effects; human capital; university; I21; J24; Z13
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 2203-2215
Journal
Applied Economics, 42 (2010) 17
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701765478
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)