assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential …

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 …

of college students. Specifically, we leverage a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC)-based method to jointly model peer …, and how students’ performances are subsequently affected by their own decisions as well as peers’ behaviors. Our findings … bear important implications for both, social networks and education policy researchers …

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 …

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