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ERIC Number: EJ1042632
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0485
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Quasi-Experimental Evidence of Peer Effects in First-Year Economics Courses at a Chinese University
Chen, Qihui; Tian, Guoqiang; Okediji, Tade O.
Journal of Economic Education, v45 n4 p304-319 2014
The authors of this article implement a quasi-experimental strategy to estimate peer effects in economic education by exploiting the institutional setting in a large public university in China, where roommates are randomly assigned conditional on a student's major and province of origin. They found significant impacts of peer academic quality, measured as roommates' average scores on the national College Entrance Exam, on first-year economics students' scores in first-year microeconomics, macroeconomics, and accounting courses. They also found nonlinearity in peer effects: Roommates' academic ability has significant effects for academically weak students but not for academically strong students.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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