university. We focus on two core variables: the share of non-English-speaking students and the diversity within the group of non …-English-speaking students with respect to their linguistic background. English-speaking students are largely unaffected by the ethno …-linguistic classroom composition.Non-English-speaking students benefit from a larger diversity in their performance and increase their …

This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …

investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children …We study the effect of negative labour market shocks borne by parents during the Covid-19 crisis on resource and time … intergenerational impact: Children whose fathers reported an earnings drop to zero are significantly less likely to have received …