The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers

A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in education. However, there is relatively little evidence on the long-run educational and labor market consequences of childhood peers. We examine this question by linking administrative data on elementary school students...

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Vydané v:The American economic review Ročník 108; číslo 11; s. 3377 - 3415
Hlavní autori: Carrell, Scott E., Hoekstra, Mark, Kuka, Elira
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Nashville American Economic Association 01.11.2018
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Academic achievement
Childhood
Children
College students
Confounding factors
Domestic violence
Earnings
Education
Elementary school students
Elementary schools
Labor market
Peers
Present value
Scores
Test scores
Tests
ISSN:0002-8282, 1944-7981
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Shrnutí:A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in education. However, there is relatively little evidence on the long-run educational and labor market consequences of childhood peers. We examine this question by linking administrative data on elementary school students to subsequent test scores, college attendance and completion, and earnings. To distinguish the effect of peers from confounding factors, we exploit the population variation in the proportion of children from families linked to domestic violence, who have been shown to disrupt contemporaneous behavior and learning. Results show that exposure to a disruptive peer in classes of 25 during elementary school reduces earnings at age 24 to 28 by 3 percent. We estimate that differential exposure to children linked to domestic violence explains 5 percent of the rich-poor earnings gap in our data, and that each year of exposure to a disruptive peer reduces the present discounted value of classmates’ future earnings by $80,000.
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ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/aer.20160763