Volume 10, Number 2 (Spring) 1975
Winkler, Donald R. 1975. "Educational Achievement and School Peer Group Composition." Journal of Human Resources 10(2):189-204.
This paper is a study of the role the racial and social compositions of the school peer group play in educational production. The investigation proceeds by first analyzing how peer group composition differs between black and white students in an urban school district in California and then determining the effects of marginal changes in peer group composition upon their achievement test scores. The findings are that blacks and whites are exposed to different kids of peer groups, and the effects of peer group composition upon student achievement vary by race of the student.
The author is Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. The author wishes to thank Frank Levy, Darius Gaskins, Roy Radner, and Henry Levin for valuable advice and encouragement.
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