Duncan McVicar|Julie Moschion|Chris Ryan
Achievement Effects from New Peers: Who Matters to Whom?
Queen's University Belfast|IZA - Institute of Labor Economics|University of Melbourne|University of Melbourne
paper presents estimates achievementrelated peer effects school pupils literacy using data national test scores across multiple literacy languagerelated measures student cohorts population public secondary school pupils years 7 9 aged 1213 1415 years australian state victoria identification achieved via individual fixed effects distinguishing secondary school peers attended primary school individual estimates peer effects based new peers whose primary school achievement could affected individual results provide evidence existence achievementrelated peer effects small positive statistically significant effects higherachieving peers average higher proportion high achieving peers top 10 prior achievement distribution find penalty bad peers bottom 10 prior achievement distribution low achievement individuals benefit high achievement peers