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Guadalupe, Melissa; Gonzalez-Gordon, Ivan – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2023
We study the impact of peer effects on the academic achievement of economics students in Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) Ecuador, for both semesters of 2018. The estimates from our random-effects model show a significant influence of the average-group, high-achieving, and low-achieving peers. These results are robust with the…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Academic Achievement, Economics Education, College Students
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Zanzzi, Fabricio; Bernabé, Lorena; Fernández, Jair; Marquez-Pinoargote, Claudia – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2019
This research compared the economics curriculum of the economics undergraduate programs of the best universities in the world, and those of universities within a developing country (Ecuador), in order to show the basic formal differences and the common characteristics (intra-rankings and inter-rankings). The proposed comparison criteria were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Universities, Undergraduate Study