Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Joern-Steffen
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/603650
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 315-348
• 关键词: student-achievement

摘要

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools, which we argue are formed roughly randomly. The estimates are much reduced within schools compared to the standard ordinary least squares (OLS) results. This could be explained either by selection into schools or by measurement error in the peer variable. Correcting for measurement error, we find within-school estimates close to the original OLS estimates. Our results suggest that the peer effect is modestly large, measurement error is important in our survey data, and selection plays little role in biasing peer effects estimates.