Do Motivated Classmates Matter for Educational Success?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bietenbeck, Jan
• 署名单位: Lund University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueae060
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 36-58
• 关键词: academic-achievement; personality; classroom; PSYCHOLOGY; mechanisms; CHILDREN; impacts

摘要

I provide evidence of social spillovers of personality by showing that being in class with motivated peers affects educational success. I first document that academic motivation, a key aspect of personality in the context of education, predicts own achievement, classroom behaviour, the high school grade point average and college-test taking among elementary school students. Exploiting random assignment of students to classes, I then show that exposure to motivated classmates causally affects achievement, an effect that operates over and above spillovers of classmates' past achievement and socio-demographic composition. However, peer motivation in elementary school does not affect own motivation and long-term educational success.