The positive influence of female college students on their male peers

Hill, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2017.01.005

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“…Males are more susceptible to the influence of migrant peers than females. This finding is consistent with previous studies that have also found stronger peer effects on males' educational performance or behaviour (Griffith and Rask, 2014;Hill, 2017;Tonello, 2016). Our results likely reflect that male students might exhibit less discriminatory attitudes or prejudice towards migrant peers and are more willing to communicate with them.…”

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“…For instance, inter-student interactions may affect the extent of knowledge spillover, class climate, the amount of effort that students expend on study, student's attitudes to learning and socialising behaviour and the teacher's pedagogical approach and effort in the classroom (Contini, 2013;Hill, 2017). However, relatively little is known about whether, and to what extent, migrant students affect the academic achievement of local students in urban China, despite the importance of this question for education policy and socioeconomic development.…”

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“…The second strand of literature, to which our study is more closely related, is the effect of peer group composition in the class or grade on educational achievement and behaviour (Bui, 2014;Carrell and Hoekstra, 2010;Gaviria and Raphael, 2001;Hill, 2017;Hoxby, 2000;Lavy et al, 2012a;Lavy and Schlosser, 2011;Mora and Oreopoulos, 2011). Most existing studies find evidence that peer gender effects significantly effect educational achievement, major choice, graduation rates and engagement in risky behaviour, with the effects on male students being a little larger (Fischer, 2017;Hill, 2017;Horoi and Ost, 2015;Hoxby, 2000;Lavy and Schlosser, 2011;Sacerdote, 2011).…”

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“…Most existing studies find evidence that peer gender effects significantly effect educational achievement, major choice, graduation rates and engagement in risky behaviour, with the effects on male students being a little larger (Fischer, 2017;Hill, 2017;Horoi and Ost, 2015;Hoxby, 2000;Lavy and Schlosser, 2011;Sacerdote, 2011). The underlying mechanism is that a higher proportion of female students might lower the level of classroom disruption, improve inter-student and studentteacher relationships, and lessen teachers' fatigue (Borjas, 2004).…”

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Do migrant students affect local students’ academic achievements in urban China?

Wang

Cheng

Smyth

2018

Economics of Education Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractWe examine the educational spillover effects of migrant students on local students' academic achievement in public middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and positive, effect on local students' test scores in Chinese, but has no significant effect on math and English test scores. We also find considerable evidence of heterogeneity in the effects of the proportion of students in the class on local students' test scores across subsamples. Local students toward the bottom of the achievement distribution, local students enrolled in small classes and local students enrolled in lower-ranked schools benefit most in terms of test scores from having a higher proportion of migrant students in their class. Our findings have important policy implications for the debate in China about the inclusion of migrant students in urban schools, and for the assignment of educational resources across schools.

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Section: Heterogeneity In Peer Effectssupporting

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Do migrant students affect local students’ academic achievements in urban China?

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2018

Economics of Education Review

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“…Zafar (2013) shows that the gender gap in science is mostly due to differences in beliefs about coursework as well as gender preferences. In recent work, Fischer (2017) and Hill (2017) highlight the importance of student peer composition on female STEM choices and persistence in college.…”

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High Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School

Mouganie

Wang

2017

SSRN Journal

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Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM jobs. This paper uses administrative data from China to examine the extent to which the presence of high-performing peers in mathematics affects the likelihood that women choose a science track during high school. Results indicate that having a higher proportion of high-performing females increases STEM major choices by girls, while more high-performing males may decrease this likelihood. There is little evidence of peer effects for boys. Our results suggest that girls doing well in quantitative fields may have a role model or affirmation effect that encourages their female classmates to pursue a science track.JEL Classification: I21, I24, I26, J24

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