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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Achievement rank affects performance and major choices in college |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 300 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Number of Pages | 47 |
| Date | 2018 |
| Abstract Text | This paper studies how a student's ordinal achievement rank affects performance and specialization choices in university. We exploit data from a setting where students are randomly assigned to teaching sections and find that students with a higher rank in their section achieve higher grades, become more likely to graduate, and are more likely to choose related follow-up courses and majors. These effects are stronger for men who, in contrast to women, respond to a higher rank with an increase in their study effort. Our results highlight that social comparisons with peers can have lasting effects on students' careers. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp300.pdf |
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| Keywords | Rank, social comparisons, higher education, peer effects, Peer-Group, Studienfachwahl, Studienleistung, Geschlechtsunterschied |