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Achievement rank affects performance and major choices in college

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Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Elsner, Benjamin (Author), Isphording, Ingo Eduard (Author), Zölitz, Ulf (Author)
Other Authors: Isphording, Ingo Eduard 1982- [Author] • Zölitz, Ulf 1985- [Author]
Type of Resource: E-Book
Language: English
published:
Series: CESifo GmbH: CESifo working papers ; no. 9040 (2021)
Subjects:
Studierende
Bildungsverhalten
Ranking-Verfahren
Qualitative Methode
Hochschule
rank
social comparisons
higher education
peer effects
Graue Literatur
Source: Verbunddaten SWB
Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen
Description
Summary: This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing related follow-up courses and majors. We document two types of dynamic effects. First, earlier ranks are less important than later ranks. Second, responses to rank changes are asymmetric: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students' expectations about future grades.
Physical Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 57 Seiten); Illustrationen