A5101979614- School Choice and Performance
- Media Influence and Politics
- Innovations in Educational Methods
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Jinan University
2022-2023
University of Birmingham
2023
We estimate the effects of an educational peer intervention in which previously high- and low-achieving students are randomly paired as deskmates elementary schools China. Our treatment boosts mathematics scores students. Moreover, enhances extraversion agreeableness students, thereby providing evidence that peers can influence personality traits. The positive be attributed to deskmate-level effects. document friend network structure changes present additional on how friendship ties help us...
We find that knowledge spillover in the classroom depends on how peer personalities differ. In addressing issue of within-group sorting, we conducted our field experiment within primary school classrooms where a pair deskmates forms smallest possible designated group. further measured non-cognitive difference between deskmates, defined as averaged their responses to Big Five personality questionnaire items, order understand social process each Our estimation results works only when is...