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- Title
TIME‐USE AND ACADEMIC PEER EFFECTS IN COLLEGE.
- Authors
Mehta, Nirav; Stinebrickner, Ralph; Stinebrickner, Todd
- Abstract
This paper examines academic peer effects in college. Unique new data from the Berea Panel Study allow us to focus on a mechanism wherein a student's peers affect her achievement by changing her study effort. Although the potential relevance of this mechanism has been recognized, data limitations have made it difficult to provide direct evidence about its importance. We find that a student's freshman grade point average is affected by the amount her peers studied in high school, suggesting the importance of this mechanism. Using time diary information, we confirm that college study time is actually being affected.
- Subjects
PEER review of students; ACADEMIC achievement; GRADE point average; HUMAN capital; SOCIAL interaction
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 2019, Vol 57, Issue 1, p162
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ecin.12730