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. …

of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career … paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of disruptiveness, we find that students assigned to more disruptive classrooms … adverse effects are more pronounced for students from low-income areas, in larger classrooms, or with fewer female peers …

of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career … paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of disruptiveness, we find that students assigned to more disruptive classrooms … adverse effects are more pronounced for students from low-income areas, in larger classrooms, or with fewer female peers …

exploiting the random assignment of first year students to college accommodation, we find evidence that peer effects are positive … and statistically significant for students enrolled in the fields of Engineering, Maths and Natural Sciences - which are … expected to generate higher earnings after college - and not different from zero for students enrolled in the Humanities …