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| dc.title | Helping Struggling Students and Benefiting All: Peer Effects in Primary Education |
| dc.contributor.author | Berlinski, Samuel |
| dc.contributor.author | Busso, MatÃas |
| dc.contributor.author | Giannola, Michele |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Department of Research and Chief Economist |
| dc.coverage | Colombia |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-25T09:48:36 |
| dc.date.issue | 2022-05-26T00:05:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the academic performance of their higher-achieving classmates. We find that the test scores of non-treated children in treatment schools increased by 0.108 of a standard deviation compared to similar children in control schools. We interpret the reduced-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of peer effects, finding that a one-standard-deviation increase in peers' contemporaneous achievement increases individual test scores by 0.679 of a standard deviation. We rule out alternative explanations coming from a reduction in class size. We explore several mechanisms, including teachers' effort, students' misbehavior, and peer-to-peer interactions. Our findings show that policies aimed at improving the bottom of the achievement distribution have the potential to generate social-multiplier effects that benefit all. |
| dc.format.extent | 1 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004268 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Helping-Struggling-Students-and-Benefiting-All-Peer-Effects-in-Primary-Education.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Academic Performance |
| dc.subject | Creativity |
| dc.subject | Economy |
| dc.subject | Primary Education |
| dc.subject.jelcode | D62 - Externalities |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I21 - Analysis of Education |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I25 - Education and Economic Development |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J01 - Labor Economics: General |
| dc.subject.keywords | Peer effects;Remedying education |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | IDB-WP-01338 |
| idb.operation | RG-K1416 |