Inside the Black Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom

Economic Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 559, 2012, Pages 208-237

  Lavy, Victor ^a,b   Paserman, M Daniele ^c   Schlosser, Analia ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STUDENT;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84857997297     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02463.x     Document Type: Article

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