The Impact of Attending a School with High-Achieving Peers: Evidence from the New York City Exam Schools
利用纽约市三所顶尖考试高中的招生断点，发现进入高成就同伴学校对大学入学、毕业及学校质量几乎没有影响。
This paper uses data from three prominent exam high schools in New York City to estimate the impact of attending a school with high-achieving peers on college enrollment and graduation. Our identification strategy exploits sharp discontinuities in the admissions process. Applicants just eligible for an exam school have peers that score 0.17 to 0.36 standard deviations higher on eighth grade state tests and that are 6.4 to 9.5 percentage points less likely to be black or Hispanic. However, exposure to these higher-achieving and more homogeneous peers has little impact on college enrollment, college graduation, or college quality.