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- Title
Peer desirability and academic achievement.
- Authors
Mehic, Adrian
- Abstract
Summary: Using the random assignment of university engineering students to peer groups during introductory freshmen weeks, this paper studies how a student's parental income and facial attractiveness affect the grade outcomes of peers. The results show that exposure to highly desirable peers with respect to socioeconomic background and beauty improves grades. The results operate chiefly through a direct spillover channel and also through an indirect marriage market channel, through which exposure to high‐desirability peers improves well‐being. A field experiment suggests that the marriage market mechanism is likely to be limited to students not currently in a romantic relationship.
- Subjects
FACIAL expression; MARRIAGE; FIELD research; ENGINEERING students; PEERS
- Publication
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, Vol 39, Issue 4, p525
- ISSN
0883-7252
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jae.3036