Disruptive School Peers and Student Outcomes

Jannie Kristoffersen, Morten Krægpøth, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Abstract: This paper estimates how peers’ achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic achievement of peers by about 1.7-2.3 percent of a standard deviation.

Keywords: Student Mobility; Special Educational Needs; Education; Value Added Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2014-09-10
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