Do Motivated Classmates Matter for Educational Success?
(2024) In Economic Journal- Abstract
- I provide evidence of social spillovers of personality by showing that being in class with motivated peers affects educational success. I first document that academic motivation, a key aspect of personality in the context of education, predicts own achievement, classroom behavior, high school GPA, and college-test taking among elementary school students. Exploiting random assignment of students to classes, I then show that exposure to motivated classmates causally affects achievement, an effect that operates over and above spillovers of classmates’ past achievement and socio-demographic composition. However, peer motivation in elementary school does not affect own motivation and long-term educational success.
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- author
- Bietenbeck, Jan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-06-27
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- I21, J13, J24
- in
- Economic Journal
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 1468-0297
- DOI
- 10.1093/ej/ueae060
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- e97433a1-00f9-4300-a0a5-80c7060418bc
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- 2024-08-29 07:31:11
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