Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
(2020) In DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES p.1-53- Abstract
- I study how motivation shapes own and peers’ educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to classes, I find that exposure to motivated classmates causally affects contemporaneous reading achievement, a peer effect that operates over and above spillovers from classmates’ past achievement and socio-demographic composition. However, peer motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation.
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- author
- Bietenbeck, Jan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-11
- type
- Working paper/Preprint
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- I21, J13, J24, motivation, personality, peer effects, Project STAR
- in
- DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES
- issue
- 13872
- pages
- 1 - 53
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 483f783c-2c1c-4d1a-a130-6904443c67bd
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- https://docs.iza.org/dp13872.pdf
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- 2022-08-31 13:57:47
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