Our study in China found struggling students can bring down the rest of the class

By Rong Zhu
Community contribution / November 18, 2020

Low-achieving 12-13 year old students can significantly bring down the academic achievement of the rest of their class. But this negative effect largely vanishes in the next two years.

These are the findings of our recent study published in Journal of Population Economics, in which we examined the influence ...

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Our study in China found struggling students can bring down the rest of the class

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