TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schilter, Claudio
AU  - Lüthi, Samuel
AU  - Wolter, Stefan C.
        TI  - Competitive Peers: The Way to Higher Paying Jobs?
        PY  - 2024/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17289
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17289
        AB  - We merge experimental data on competitiveness of a large sample of students with their complete educational history for up to ten years after the initial assessment. Exploiting quasi-random class assignments, we find that having competitive peers as classmates makes students choose and secure positions in higher-paying occupations. These occupations are also more challenging and more popular. On the cost side, competitive peers do not lead to a lower probability of graduating from the subsequent job-specific education, but they significantly increase the probability of requiring extra time to do so.
        KW  - peer effects
KW  - competitiveness
KW  - occupational choice
        ER  -