There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes … at secondary schools. Students participate in a running task twice: first, the students run alone, then with a peer …

unobserved. For instance, in education, academic effort is often proxied by GPA. We propose an alternative approach that … from classical estimates (where effort is approximated) if the network includes isolated students. Applying our approach to … data on high school students in the United States, we find that peer effect estimates relying on GPA as a proxy for effort …

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the … organise their educational systems, have a crucial bearing on how immigrant students affect their peers. …

Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the … effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a …

violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects …

local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …

educational outcomes of low-income students and has negative effects on high-income students. We further document a range of …

student interactions outside the classroom - especially in adolescence - may be an important factor in the education …