Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on … in the USA in the TIMSS 2015 student assessment. For students, the likelihood of cooperation increases conditional on …

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 …

-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 …