Are There Peer Effects from English Learners in Elementary Schools? Evidence from an IV Approach-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Are There Peer Effects from English Learners in Elementary Schools? Evidence from an IV Approach

Published:2021-02-19 Issue:2 Volume:21 Page:825-834
ISSN:1935-1682
Container-title:The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
language:en
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Author:

Gaastra Sieuwerd¹^ORCID,Labanca Claudio²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Facebook , London , UK

2. Department of Economics, Monash University , Clayton , Australia

Abstract

Abstract We study the peer effects of English Learners on the test scores of native English speaking students using a new instrument to account for the endogeneity of students’ English Learner status. Relative to what OLS estimates would suggest, we find smaller and insignificant peer effects of English Learners on native English speaking students in California elementary schools.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Economics and Econometrics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/bejeap-2020-0269/pdf

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