| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP13754 |
| DP13754 Girls, Boys, and High Achievers | |
| Eleonora Patacchini; Raquel Fernández; Angela Cools | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-05-24 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect by exploiting quasi-random variation in the exposure of students to peers with highly-educated parents across cohorts within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases the likelihood that girls go on to complete a bachelor's degree, substituting the latter with junior college degrees. It also affects negatively their math and science grades and, in the long term, decreases labor force participation and increases fertility. We explore possible mechanisms and find that greater exposure leads to lower self-confidence and aspirations and to more risky behavior (including having a child before age 18). The girls most strongly affected are those in the bottom half of the ability distribution (as measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test), those with at least one college-educated parent, and those attending a school in the upper half of the socio-economic distribution. The effects are quantitatively important: an increase of one standard deviation in the percent of "high-achieving" boys decreases the probability of obtaining a bachelor's degree from 2.2-4.5 percentage points, depending on the group. Greater exposure to "high-achieving" girls, on the other hand, increases bachelor's degree attainment for girls in the lower half of the ability distribution, those without a college-educated parent, and those attending a school in the upper half of the socio-economic distribution. The effect of "high-achievers" on male outcomes is markedly different: boys are unaffected by "high-achievers" of either gender. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Gender Education Cohort study High achievers Peers |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13754 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542619 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Eleonora Patacchini,Raquel Fernández,Angela Cools. DP13754 Girls, Boys, and High Achievers. 2019. |
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