assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential … mechanisms, we then estimate how effects on attitudes, parents, and teachers could drive these results. Higher-achieving peers …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of … children receiving unexpectedly "bad" test scores who alter their perceptions. Learning that a child scores above the national …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique … qualified teachers by increasing their financial investments in their children. The key mechanism is an increase in parents …, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …