achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …

achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …

This paper identifies the effect peer ability has not only on a student’s academic performance but also on their effort … effect of a change in the ability of non-carryover peers is found to be positive on both a student’s academic performance and … is found to be negative for the lowest relative ability students, but positive and of the greatest magnitude for those of …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students’ success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first- time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

the academic performance was assessed through questions related to Academic scores, the activities that the students enjoy …

This paper deals with the data of dormitory students in National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College to …

performance of incumbent students. Leveraging variation in the share of refugees within schools and across grades, I find that …-in-means specifications I find evidence of negative spillovers in ELA performance among low-achieving students and positive spillovers among … high-achieving students …

paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not … strategy addresses students' endogenous sorting into classes by exploiting the within-student across-subjects variation in …. While native students are mostly influenced by the average quality of their peers, immigrant children are detrimentally …

In this paper, I use survey data from high school students in Texas to examine the magnitude of peer correlation in …