Institutional Ethos, Peers and Individual Outcomes

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In this paper we present estimates of roommate and institution based peer effects. Using data from the College & Beyond survey, the Freshman survey, and phonebook data that allows us to identify college roommates - we estimate models of students' political persuasion and intellectual engagement. The evidence suggests that a student's roommate's political sentiments have some impact on their own political views later in life. We also implement a cluster based analysis that attempts to answer the question: how would a student's outcomes have changed if they'd attended a very different school? Our findings suggest that student outcomes are, indeed, sensitive to the school they attend. Similar students attending schools that have a decidedly different 'ethos' differ in important ways post-college. Institutional peer effects seem to have a powerful effect on student outcomes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WPEHE Discussion Paper ; No. 68

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Meinung ; Soziale Integration ; Studium ; Schätzung ; USA ; peer effects

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Zimmerman, David J. ; Rosenblum, David ; Hillman, Preston
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Williams College, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education (WPEHE)
• (wo): Williamstown, MA
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23515
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ