This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school …, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school …, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in …

Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big …-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students …' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students' ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested …

ideal for investigating this question. There, students are placed in exam schools based on a high-stakes national … large achievement gains and improved university placements for high achieving students. …

Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … period 1985 to 2010, we investigate the importance of a student's peers in higher education for the decision to drop out. We … cohorts within the same education and institution. Our findings suggest that peer ability is an important determinant of …

knowledge. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there are … no synergy effects from teaching different students together. This arises because the comprehensive school sets a … compromise standard which exceeds the standard from the low ability track. Moreover, if students with lower initial ability have …