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Classroom Peer Effects and Teachers: Evidence from Quasi-random Assignment in a Chinese Middle School

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  • Leshui He

    (Bates College)

  • Stephen L. Ross

    (University of Connecticut)

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This paper examines peer effects in a Chinese middle school where 1. classes are randomly assigned to teachers and 2. student quality across classes varies because student assignment is based on a noisy measure of student quality. Peer effects are concentrated primarily on math scores, as opposed to Chinese or English scores. Improvements in peers at the bottom of the distribution of ability leads to improvements in student performance both for the student’s own class and for sibling classes that share the same teachers, but are not connected in any other way. For middle and top tercile peers, improvements in peers appear to reduce student test scores. The positive effects of peers at the bottom of the distribution are primarily associated with the ability of boys in the class and the sibling class, while the negative effect of peers seems to be driven by same gender peers. Finally, the positive own class and sibling class peer effects arise primarily when the head teacher of the class or the sibling class, respectively, teaches math.

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  • Leshui He & Stephen L. Ross, 2017. "Classroom Peer Effects and Teachers: Evidence from Quasi-random Assignment in a Chinese Middle School," Working papers 2017-02, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
  • Handle: RePEc:uct:uconnp:2017-02
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    Cited by:

    1. Marco Bertoni & Giorgio Brunello & Lorenzo Cappellari, 2020. "Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(7), pages 893-916, November.
    2. Eble, Alex & Hu, Feng, 2020. "Child beliefs, societal beliefs, and teacher-student identity match," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).

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    Keywords

    Peer Effects; Teachers; Middle School; Chinese Education;
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    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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