Lugo, Maria Ana2012-03-192012-03-192011-06-01https://hdl.handle.net/10986/3482Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive 'peer effects'. Yet standard, linear-in-means models of peer effects (a) implicitly assume that segregation is zero sum, with gains and losses to rich and poor perfectly offsetting, and (b) rule out theories of 'social distance' whereby peer effects are strongest among similar pairings. The paper exploits the random assignment of pupils between classes to identify more general peer effects in Argentine test-score data. Estimates violate both assumptions (a) and (b), and provide micro foundations for the correlations between school segregation, average test-scores, and test-score inequality in municipality-level data.CC BY 3.0 IGOACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDRENACADEMIC ATTAINMENTACADEMIC PERFORMANCEAVERAGE PARENTAL EDUCATIONAVERAGE TEST SCOREAVERAGE TEST SCORESBASIC KNOWLEDGEBETTER TEACHERSBINDINGBOOKS AT HOMECHURCHESCLASS SIZECLASSROOMCLASSROOMSCOGNITIVE SKILLSCOLLEGE STUDENTSCURRICULUMDECENTRALIZATIONDIDACTIC MATERIALEARLY CHILDHOODECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMICS OF EDUCATIONEDUCATION LAWEDUCATION POLICIESEDUCATION QUALITYEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTEDUCATIONAL HISTORYEDUCATIONAL SYSTEMELEMENTARY SCHOOLELEMENTSEQUAL OPPORTUNITIESETHNIC GROUPSFORMAL EDUCATIONGRADE REPETITIONHUMAN CAPITALHUMAN DEVELOPMENTHUMAN RESOURCESINTERVENTIONSINVESTMENT IN EDUCATIONKINDERGARTENLEARNINGLEVEL OF EDUCATIONLITERACYLITERACY RATELITERATUREMATHEMATICSMINISTRY OF EDUCATIONMOBILITYNET ENROLLMENTNUMBER OF SCHOOLSNUMBER OF STUDENTSOPEN ACCESSPAPERSPARENTAL EDUCATIONPARENTAL INCOMEPARENTS EDUCATIONPEDAGOGYPEER GROUPPERFORMANCE AT SCHOOLPRIMARY EDUCATIONPRIMARY SCHOOLPRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDRENPRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILSPRIMARY SCHOOLINGPRIMARY SCHOOLSPRINTINGPRIVATE INSTITUTIONSPRIVATE SCHOOLPRIVATE SCHOOLSPROVISION OF EDUCATIONPUBLIC SCHOOLPUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILSPUBLIC SCHOOLINGPUBLIC SCHOOLSPUPIL PERFORMANCEQUALITY OF EDUCATIONQUALITY OF INSTRUCTIONRACIAL SEGREGATIONREADINGREADING SKILLSSCHOLARSHIPSSCHOOL ACHIEVEMENTSCHOOL AGED CHILDRENSCHOOL DIRECTORSSCHOOL ENROLMENTSCHOOL FUNDINGSCHOOL LEVELSCHOOL MANAGEMENTSCHOOL PRINCIPALSSCHOOL SYSTEMSCHOOL SYSTEMSSCHOOL YEARSCHOOLSSECONDARY SCHOOLSECONDARY SCHOOLSSHOW HOWSOCIAL CAPITALSOCIAL COHESIONSOCIAL DEVELOPMENTSOCIAL GROUPSSPECIAL SCHOOLSSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENTSTUDENT PERFORMANCESYLLABITEACHERTEACHER INCENTIVESTEACHER QUALITYTEACHERSTEACHINGTEACHING STRATEGIESTENURETEST SCORESTUTORINGWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-5718