Sitting Next to a Dropout Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers

Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan Cornelis (2022). Sitting Next to a Dropout Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers (Unpublished)

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We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our identification strategy relies on quasi-random variation in the proportion of returning dropouts. The estimated average zero effect of dropouts on first-time students’ success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative effects on the academic success of their new peers from dropouts re-enrolling in the same subject and, conversely, positive effects of dropouts changing subjects. Second, using causal machine learning methods, we find that the effects vary nonlinearly with different treatment intensities and prevailing treatment levels.

Item Type:	Working Paper
Division/Institute:	03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Economics
UniBE Contributor:	Goller, Daniel, Wolter, Stefan Cornelis
Subjects:	300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics
Language:	English
Submitter:	Julia Alexandra Schlosser
Date Deposited:	25 Oct 2022 15:57
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 16:26
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/173965