An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …

We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …

Higher education policymakers are concerned about the success of first-generation college students. In this study, we … investigate one potential factor that may influence outcomes: first-generation students' peers. To mitigate common biases that may … impacts first-semester English grades for first-generation students. Our findings for math are inconclusive, with at best …

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …

), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …