TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bietenbeck, Jan
        TI  - Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
        PY  - 2020/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13872
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13872
        AB  - I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to classes, I find that exposure to motivated classmates causally affects contemporaneous reading achievement, a peer effect that operates over and above spillovers from classmates' past achievement and socio-demographic composition. However, peer motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation.
        KW  - personality
KW  - Project STAR
KW  - peer effects
KW  - motivation
        ER  -