Identifying peer achievement spillovers: Implications for desegregation and the achievement gap
识别同伴成绩溢出：学校去隔离与成绩差距的含义
This paper develops a new approach to identifying peer achievement spillovers in the context of an equilibrium model of student effort choices. By focusing on the effect of contemporaneous peer achievement, this framework integrates previously unexplored types of heterogeneity in peer spillovers in the achievement production context. Applying the strategy to North Carolina public elementary school students, I find peer achievement spillovers exist primarily within race-based…