Disruptive Interactions: Long-run Peer Effects of Disciplinary Schools

70 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2023

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Anjali P. Verma

Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin

Akiva Yonah Meiselman

Research Improving People's Lives

Date Written: November 25, 2022

Abstract

We study the effects of disruptive peers within disciplinary schools. When regular instructional schools send disruptive students away to disciplinary schools, removed students are exposed to highly disruptive peers. Using rich administrative data on Texas high school students, we leverage within school-year variation in peer composition at disciplinary schools to estimate the effects. We show that for students placed in disciplinary schools, exposure to more disruptive peer groups increase their subsequent removals and reduce educational attainment, employment, and earnings. Our results draw attention to an unintended consequence of student removal and highlight how brief exposure to disruptive peers can affect students' long-run trajectories.

Keywords: Disruptive Peer Effects, School Discipline, Education, Labor

JEL Classification: I2, I24, J01

Suggested Citation

Verma, Anjali P. and Meiselman, Akiva Yonah, Disruptive Interactions: Long-run Peer Effects of Disciplinary Schools (November 25, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4516239 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4516239

Anjali P. Verma (Contact Author)

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HOME PAGE: http://anjalipverma.github.io

Akiva Yonah Meiselman

Research Improving People's Lives ( email )

Providence, RI 02903
United States

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