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Tiêu đề

Roommate effects on grades: Evidence from first-year housing assignments

Tác giả

McEwan P.J.; Soderberg K.A.

Năm xuất bản

2006

Source title

Research in Higher Education

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1007/s11162-005-9392-2

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33644902411&doi=10.1007%2fs11162-005-9392-2&partnerID=40&md5=5b7e79a87eeb4462183502102ba1fa0b

Tóm tắt

This paper estimates the effect of students' background characteristics on the academic outcomes of their college roommates. It uses data from four classes of students at Wellesley College, where roommate assignment is credibly random, conditional on student responses to a housing preference form. In linear specifications, there are no peer effects on students' grade point averages. There is some evidence that students' SAT scores have nonlinear effect on their roommates' achievement, but the results are not robust. We conclude that roommate peer effects might exist among small groups of students, but they are not a key determinant of students' average academic outcomes at Wellesley College. © Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006.

Từ khóa

Liberal arts college; Natural experiment; Peer effects; Roommates; Selection bias

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