We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating … interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the … effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …

groups. The study uses administrative data on undergraduate students at a large selective university in Russia. The presence … of high-ability classmates has a positive effect on individual academic performance, and students at the top of the … ability distribution derive the greatest benefit from their presence. An increase in the proportion of less able students has …

,000 Italian students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 and followed through college and in the labor market. We …-Teacher assignment group, shows large variation that we document to be as good as random. We find that male students who attended a high …, male students from high school classes with >90% males ended up with lower probability of graduating altogether, and they …

identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously …

-income students who need developmental education courses. Our strategy is two-pronged. First, we have supported four faculty fellows …-learning students through hands-on service and learning activities in the community and on campus. These activities that we call … “sponsored projects” reach additional low-income students who need developmental courses and provide an ongoing structure of …

Peer influences on academic outcomes are often studied using GPA as a proxy variable for students' academic effort. We … show that this may bias the peer effects when the network includes isolated students. This is because GPA depends on … unobserved factors that do not influence isolated and non-isolated students in the same way. To resolve this issue, we propose an …

We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of … universities in the Netherlands, making differences in the prestige of fields of study more prominent. …