-cohort differences in the distributions of socioeconomic status within schools in a linear fixed effects model to identify a causal rank … effect. I find that a higher rank during high school improves a student's depression scores, cognitive ability, self …-esteem and popularity. The rank effects are persistent with long-lasting consequences for adult depression and college attainment …

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive … achievement, being ranked highly during primary school has large effects on secondary school achievement, with the impact of rank …

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 … effects. First, earlier ranks are less important than later ranks. Second, responses to rank changes are asymmetric …

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which 'observed' inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

Despite the fact that many aggregates are nonlinear functions and the aggregation weights of many macroeconomic …, time-invariant aggregation weights. In this study a framework for nonlinear contemporaneous aggregation with possibly …