academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers …), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random.We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …

A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household … migrant students who are unable to enroll in public schools perform significantly worse than their more fortunate counterparts … key factor determining the quality of education that migrant children receive …

local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …

admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … income premium. I find that students with a just-above-threshold score are less likely to be college dropouts, take six fewer … administrative records about high school, college admission, college attendance and tax returns. Students with score just above the …

local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …