difference-in-difference approach using administrative panel data on over 54,000 course grades of local students enrolled at … Maastricht University before and during the partial cannabis prohibition. We find that the academic performance of students who … are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially. Grade improvements are driven by younger students …

university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers … along several dimensions. Students with more competitive peers become more competitive, students with more open-minded peers … become more open-minded, and students with more conscientious peers become more conscientious. We see no significant effects …

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 …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … in STEM occupations, earn less, and have more children. Our findings show that the school peer environment has lasting …

observed spillovers are not well-explained by price, income, proximity or legacy effects, but are most consistent with older … of such personally salient information may partly explain persistent differences in college-going rates by income …

spillovers are not well-explained by price, income, proximity or legacy effects, but are most consistent with older siblings … personally salient in-formation may partly explain persistent differences in college-going rates by geography, income, and other …