TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment – what are the long run effects of a student’s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank, conditional on ability and classroom fixed effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to take AP classes, to graduate high school, and to enroll in college, and ultimately have higher earnings 19 years later. The paper concludes by exploring the tradeoff between higher quality schools and higher rank in the presence of these rank-based peer effects.
AU  - Denning, Jeffrey T.
AU  - Murphy, Richard
AU  - Weinhardt, Felix
DA  - May 2019
PY  - 2019
ST  - Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes
UR  - http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai19-73
ER  -