Project Details
Projekt
Peer effects in school (A04)
Subject Area
Economic Policy, Applied Economics
Term
since 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 326731373
We provide empirical evidence on peer effects and class size effects in school across a wide range of countries using a so-called birth cohort approach. This approach exploits "quasi-natural experiments" that take place every year in every school in school systems with birth-date-based school enrollment rules. The approach is used to estimate gender peer effects, peer effects related to the age and socioeconomic composition of birth cohorts, and peer effects related to class size. The data requirements for the approach are only slightly more stringent than for existing approaches exploiting variation at the grade level.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Subproject of
TRR 224:
Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability
Applicant Institution
Universität Mannheim
Project Head
Professor Dr. Antonio Ciccone
