Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR
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Identification of peer effects with missing peer data: Evidence from Project STAR
Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR This paper studies peer effects on student achievement among first graders randomly assigned to classrooms in Tennessee’s Project STAR. The analysis uses previously unexploited pre-assignment achievement measures available for 60 percent of students. Data are not missing at random, making identification challengin...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Economic Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0013-0133,1468-0297
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02559.x