achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …

university. We exploit data from a setting where students are randomly assigned to teaching sections and find that students with … on students' careers …

This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …