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 …

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … schools operate and how they might be made more effective. In this new framework students have a dual role. They are both (a … behavior of students, teachers and administrators depends on the incentives facing them and the actions of the other actors in …

. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable heterogeneity in the effects experienced by different types of students …. Using nonlinear models, one prevalent finding is larger peer effects in which high ability students benefit from the … presence of other high ability students. Studies that stratify students by race and ability often find that students are …

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 …

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

This paper examines schools' decisions to sort students into different classes and how those sorting processes impact …," which allows teachers to direct their focus to a more narrow range of students, and a peer effect, which causes a particular … tracking effect and the peer effect should benefit high performing students. However, the effects would work in opposite …

Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K‐12 students … admission threshold, or a lower bar for disadvantaged students? We use data from a large urban school district to study the … impacts of assignment to separate gifted classrooms on three distinct groups of fourth grade students: non …

This study examines the effect of peer groups on the exercise habits of focal students. Using a nationally … representative sample of junior high school students in China, we exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms to estimate … on the persistence of exercise habits among students. Furthermore, we find a positive correlation between a higher …