Disruptive School Peers and Student Outcomes

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This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic achievement of peers by about 1.7-2.3 percent of a standard deviation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8823

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
• Subject: student mobility ; special educational needs ; education ; value added model

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G. ; Kraegpøth, Morten Visby ; Nielsen, Helena Skyt ; Simonsen, Marianne
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/108705
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET