We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on peer effects in education. Theoretical models of peer effects are … empirical evidence on and channels of peer effects in education. …

the economics students from Romania. The Internet of Things refers to the interconnection between different devices via …,179 students from four university centers from Romania and the included factors from the acceptance of IoT technologies model … indicate that the students from the economic studies, are ready to accept the new technological advances in IoT and to …

We evaluate a simple allocation mechanism of students to majors at college entry that was commonly used in universities … in Brazil in the 1990s and 2000s. Students first chose a single major and then took exams that select them in or out of … and is not strategy-proof. This means that some pairs of major & students can be made better off and that students tend to …

rather low, while grades are quite good conditional on high school performance. In others, weaker students have a greater …. We show that high school grades are strongly associated with both graduation probabilities and final grades, whereas … variables measuring social origin or income have only a smaller impact. Moreover, the link between high school performance and …

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of U.S. college students drop out without earning a bachelor … develop a quantitative model of college choice. The innovation is to model in detail how students progress towards a college … predict whether they will graduate with at least 80% probability. As a result, stylized policies that insure students against …

This paper analyzes optimal grading in a world that focuses on top grades. Students choose an effort level, their … coarseness of the grading scale to maximize student welfare. When choosing their effort, students overweight outstanding - or …/Fail scales (tenure decisions) via A-F-scales (school) to fully disclosing scores (e.g. SAT). …

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor … develop a quantitative model of college choice. The innovation is to model in detail how students progress towards a college … predict whether they will graduate with at least 80% probability. As a result, stylized policies that insure students against …

We use rich microeconomic data on performance and choices of students at college entry to study the interaction between … which preferences and expectations of students are identified from data on choices and multiple exam grades. Counterfactuals … timing of choices and exams are shown to increase welfare. Redistribution among students or schools is sizeable in all …

. Data on study efforts are derived from an electronic learning environment, which records the amount of time students are … economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments …. However, we find that impatient students obtain lower grades and fail final exams more often, suggesting that impatient …

This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance … in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain … professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of administrative data on more than 2, 900 students from the university of …