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 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. …

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education … and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …

achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy … only disproportionately high shares of immigrants but also the lowest ability native students. We adopt a value added model … average effects on maths test scores that are larger for low ability native students, strongly non-linear and only observable …