Duration matters: peer effects on academic achievement with random assignment in the Chinese context

Abstract This paper goes beyond the most popular perspective of family social capital among existing research and examines the effect of peer social capital on adolescent academic achievement. Using the official data from a Chinese university and taking into account the endogeneity problems, this pa...

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Main Author: Cheng Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-02-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-020-0114-0