Der Beitrag behandelt die bekannte Frage nach den Effekten der kognitiven Differenzierung auf die Entstehung sozialer Stratifikationen im Bildungserfolg für einen kaum untersuchten Spezialfall: die hier sogenannte Kollateral-Stratifikation als die nur korrelative Kovariation von kognitiver...

We leverage the timing of pandemic-induced school closures to learn about the emergence of ordinal rank effects in education. Using administrative data from Italian middle schools for four cohorts of students, our study reveals that disrupting peer interactions during the first year of middle...

We leverage the timing of pandemic-induced school closures to learn about the emergence of ordinal rank effects in education. Using administrative data from Italian middle schools for four cohorts of students, our study reveals that disrupting peer interactions during the first year of middle...

Using Italian data on the universe of mandatory tests conducted in a low-stakes setting without air conditioning, we investigate the effect of temperature on student performance, with a focus on how manipulation distorts causal estimates of temperature effects on test scores. While high...