TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.
AU  - Kraegpøth, Morten Visby
AU  - Nielsen, Helena Skyt
AU  - Simonsen, Marianne
        TI  - Disruptive School Peers and Student Outcomes
        PY  - 2015/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8823
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8823
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - student mobility
KW  - special educational needs
KW  - education
KW  - value added model
        ER  -