Show simple item record

dc.contributor.advisorDiamantaras, Dimitrios
dc.creatorEdelman, Brent Michael
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-26T18:25:40Z
dc.date.available2020-10-26T18:25:40Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.other864884921
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1149
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation develops a theoretical model of educational peer effects and then empirically tests whether or not they exist. In the theoretical model, each student selects an effort level to maximize utility; this effort choice depends on his peer group's effort and race. The students' equilibrium effort expression results in hypotheses that can be directly investigated empirically, a definition of the social multiplier, and conditions under which a social multiplier exists. The empirical model uses student-level data with observations on complete classrooms and two measures of effort, self-assessed effort and time spent studying, to investigate whether or not peer effects exist. The estimation results of the empirical model, interpreted using a simulation-based technique, find a positive relationship between the amount of time a student spends studying and time spent studying by peers who share his race; for self-assessed effort, the results are ambiguous. Simulations of policy experiments show that effort is higher in more racially homogeneous classrooms and that a social multiplier exists for both a reduction in the time a student spends working at a part time job and an increase in the student's socioeconomic status.
dc.format.extent189 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofTheses and Dissertations
dc.rightsIN COPYRIGHT- This Rights Statement can be used for an Item that is in copyright. Using this statement implies that the organization making this Item available has determined that the Item is in copyright and either is the rights-holder, has obtained permission from the rights-holder(s) to make their Work(s) available, or makes the Item available under an exception or limitation to copyright (including Fair Use) that entitles it to make the Item available.
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectEconomics, General
dc.subjectEducation Policy
dc.subjectEducation, Sociology of
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectEffort
dc.subjectPeer Effects
dc.subjectRace
dc.subjectSocial Multiplier
dc.titleClassroom Peer Effects, Effort, and Race
dc.typeText
dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberGoetz, Michael L.
dc.contributor.committeememberRitter, Moritz B.
dc.description.departmentEconomics
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1131
dc.ada.noteFor Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodation, including help with reading this content, please contact scholarshare@temple.edu
dc.description.degreePh.D.
refterms.dateFOA2020-10-26T18:25:40Z


Files in this item

Thumbnail
Name:
Edelman_temple_0225E_10438.pdf
Size:
995.4Kb
Format:
PDF

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record