Bad Company: Understanding negative peer effects in college achievement

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“…Thus results that are quantitatively different from ours may originate from a more representative sample. However, we conjecture that our qualitative results may extend to a more representative sample because they are generally 22 Lyle (2007), Brady et al (2015), Carrell et al (2010) are examples of additional studies from the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, respectively.…”

Order of play advantage in sequential tournaments: Evidence from randomized settings in professional golf

“…Peer effects have been studied extensively in settings ranging from grade school classrooms, at the college level, in the workplace, and in athletic competitions. For example, Mas and Moretti (2009) examine the peer effects between grocery store cashiers, while Carrell et al (2009) and Carell et al (2013) provide examinations of peer effects between students and the United States Air Force Academy (see Brady, Insler and Rahman (2016) for a review of the education literature, in particular). In athletics, Depken and Haglund (2010) examine peer effects among members of relay teams in track and field events, while Hill (2014) looks at peer effects within individual sprints in track and field competitions (and see Jane (2015) for a study of peer effects among collegiate swimmers).…”

Do Sports Crowd Out Books? The Impact of Intercollegiate Athletic Participation on Grades

“…See, for example,Carrell et al (2013) andBrady et al (2015) for discussions of negative peer effects in college settings.32 The reader may skip ahead toTable 9to see that the "ease of schedule" metric is not substantially different between recruits and non-recruits. If anything, point estimates suggest that recruits' courses assign, on average, slightly lower grades.…”