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The Impact of Low-Ability Peers on Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes

Random Assignment Evidence on the Effects and Operating Channels

View ORCID ProfileDi Xu, View ORCID ProfileQing Zhang and View ORCID ProfileXuehan Zhou
Journal of Human Resources, March 2022, 57 (2) 555-596; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.2.0718-9637R2
Di Xu
Di Xu is an associate professor of Education Policy and Social Context at the School of Education, University of California Irvine .
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Qing Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Instituite for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
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Xuehan Zhou
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vol. 57 no. 2 555-596
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.2.0718-9637R2
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
History 
  • Received July 1, 2018
  • Accepted December 1, 2019
  • Published online March 2, 2022.

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© 2022 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System This open access article is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) and is freely available online at: http://jhr.uwpress.org. Derek Neal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5322-0811

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  1. Di Xu,
  2. Qing Zhang and
  3. Xuehan Zhou
  1. Di Xu is an associate professor of Education Policy and Social Context at the School of Education, University of California Irvine dix3{at}uci.edu.
  2. Qing Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Instituite for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
  3. Xuehan Zhou is a doctoral student at the School of Education, University of California, Irvine.
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