Cool to be smart or smart to be cool? understanding peer pressure in education
We model and test two school-based peer cultures: One that stigmatizes effort and one that rewards ability. The model shows that either may reduce participation in educational activities when peers can observe participation and performance. We design a field experiment that allows us to test for, an...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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