Peer Effects in the Classroom: Evidence from New Peers
This thesis investigates the role of classmates in the academic achievement of an individual student. I propose a new strategy to identify ability spillovers and combine this strategy with a unique data set to estimate peer effects in education. Using this innovative approach, I quantify the averag...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43697 |