| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP16066 |
| DP16066 Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College | |
| Benjamin Elsner; Ingo E. Isphording; Ulf Zölitz | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-04-22 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing related follow-up courses and majors. We document two types of dynamic effects. First, earlier ranks are less important than later ranks. Second, responses to rank changes are asymmetric: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students’ expectations about future grades. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Rank Social comparisons Higher education Peer effects |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16066 |
| 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/545044 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Benjamin Elsner,Ingo E. Isphording,Ulf Zölitz. DP16066 Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College. 2021. |
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