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| Author: | Robertson, D. Symons, J. |
| Title: | Do peer groups matter? Peer group versus schooling effects on academic attainment |
| Journal: | Economica
2003 : FEB, VOL. 70:277, p. 31-53 |
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| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The paper estimates an educational production function. Educational attainment is a function of peer group, parental input and schooling. Conventional measures of school quality are not good predictors for academic attainment, once we control for peer group effects, parental qualities also have strong effects on academic attainment. The main methodological innovation in this paper is the nomination of a set of instruments, very broad regions of birth, which, as a whole, pass close scrutiny for validity and permit unbiased estimation of the production function. |
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