More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

In the context of a voluntary remedial math course for university students, we conduct randomized field experiments to … study whether social information can help counteract low participation rates. Incoming students receive postal invitation … course, they raise attendance among late enrolling students, which in turn increases their academic performance in the first …