We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and … behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on … changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The …

we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … and students' characteristics. University students are also poor at estimating their own test-performance and over …-estimate their predicted test score. However, females, white and working class students have less inflated view of themselves. Self …