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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jain, Tarun
• Kapoor, Mudit

Titel

The impact of study groups and roommates on academic performance

Ist Teil von

• The review of economics and statistics, 2015-03, Vol.97 (1), p.44-54

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: The MIT Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper uses random assignment of students to investigate the impact of study groups and roommates on academic achievement. We find that informal social interaction with roommates has a significant positive impact on academic achievement, while study group peers have no discernible impact, a result driven by group heterogeneity in ability. We also find that lower-ability students benefit from high-ability students but not vice versa.