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VIRTUAL EVENT: The value of a peer
17 March 2021, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
In this webinar, Ingo Isphording will discuss peer value-added, a new approach to quantify the total contribution of an individual peer to student performance.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Francesca Foliano
Peer value-added captures social spillovers irrespective of whether they are generated by observable or unobservable peer characteristics.
Using data with repeated random assignment to university sections, Ingo and his co-author find that students significantly differ in their peer value-added.
Peer value-added is a good out-of-sample predictor of performance spillovers in newly assigned student-peer pairs.
Yet, students’ own past performance and other observable characteristics are poor predictors of peer value-added. Peer value-added increases after exposure to better peers, and valuable peers are substitutes for low-quality teachers.
QSS seminar series
In this weekly Quantitative Social Science (QSS) seminar series, speakers present research that falls under the broad umbrella of quantitative social science.
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About the Speaker
Ingo Isphording
Ingo is an applied economist with focus on education economics, with overlaps to political economy and labor economics.
He graduated from Ruhr University Bochum in 2013 and has been at IZA since, now as head of a research group labelled 'Skill Formation' and deputy coordinator for IZA’s program area 'Economics of Education'.
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