Students’ Work Ethic Affected by Peer Groups, Desire to be Popular Many teachers may raise concern when it comes to their students not working harder or putting in their best effort towards their academic work and showing lack of interest. This study finally has the answers to those concerns. This research study focuses on the reasons why students choose not to work harder on their academic work due to peer pressure. It was conducted by Leonardo Bursztyn at UCLA and Robert Jensen at the Wharton School where they selected four low-income high schools in Los Angeles with the target population of selecting 11th graders to conduct to the research. As we know, usually the 11th grade is the time that the student start applying to college and taking
