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Chen, Qihui – Education Economics, 2021
This paper estimates peer effects on children's school entry age, using a dataset on 4,165 children from rural northwestern China (Gansu province). Instrumental-variable estimation, exploiting variations in (older) peers' home-to-school distance to identify the effect of their school entry age, reveals that a one-year increase in (older) peers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, School Entrance Age, Age Differences
Xiao Liu; Chuanyi Guo; Han Yu – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Understanding the factors that influence student outcomes is crucial for both parents and schools when designing effective educational strategies. This paper explores the impact of peer age on both cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes using a randomized sample of middle school students. By analyzing how exogenous variations in peer age affect…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Outcomes of Education