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Educational Peer E ff ects Quantile Regression Evidence from Denmark with PISA 2000 data by
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | We combine data from the first wave of the OECD PISA sample with register data for Denmark to estimate educational peer effects. These datasets combined provide an unusually large set of background variables that help alleviate the usual problems of omitted variables bias, prevalent in much of the empirical literature on peer effects. Quantile regression results show that there may be differential peer group effects at different points of the conditional test score distribution: The positive and significant peer level effect is strongest for weak students and is steadily decreasing over the conditional test score distribution. The effect from a heterogenous peer composition on test scores does affect weak learners positively, while the effect for good readers is negative, but at all estimated quantiles, the effect is not significantly different from zero. These results combined suggest that mixing of abilities is the optimal policy to maximize average reading skills in the student |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/31/13/33684822.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pisa.oecd.org/NatReports/PISA2000/DenmarkEducationPeerEffects.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.akf.dk/cv/phd/cap3_bs_thesis.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.oecd.org/education/school/programmeforinternationalstudentassessmentpisa/33684822.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
