the technologically savvy generation of students have brought significant challenges to an academic community already …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … manipulated and students are randomly assigned to these groups. Boys tend to postpone their dropout decision when surrounded by … effects on achievement. This in spite of the fact that students' perceptions of the behavior of themselves and their peers are …

We develop and estimate an equilibrium model of study time choices of students on a social network. We examine how … characteristics appears important in explaining variation across students in study time and achievement, and determines the aggregate …