paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not … strategy addresses students' endogenous sorting into classes by exploiting the within-student across-subjects variation in …. While native students are mostly influenced by the average quality of their peers, immigrant children are detrimentally …

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 …

We analyse peer effects among students of a middle-sized Italian public university. We explain students' average grade … definitions of peer groups, describing different kinds of students' interaction, based on classes attended together or exams taken … instrument, the exogenous assigning of students to different teaching classes in the compulsory courses attended during their …