assessments, and characteristics of their families and siblings, we examine potential channels of the gender gap. Our results … confirm that objective mathematics abilities only explain a small share of the gender gap in self-assessed mathematics …. Gender-biased parental assessments explain a large part of the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment, highlighting the …

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and … robust to school fixed effects, cannot be explained by broader cohort effects or general anti-social behaviors in male peer …

observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. -- gender ; risk preferences ; single-sex groups ; cognitive ability …

In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in … cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …

groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …

Measuring the gender peer effects on student achievement has recently attracted a lot of attention in the literature … increases the academic achievement of all students. Nevertheless, the identification of pure gender effects remains a challenge … problem in a setting where girls are not academically better. Using 2009-2010 school year data on 8th graders in Turkey, this …

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to more female classmates with less school absence and improvement … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects. …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger … classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school … of the long-term causal effects exploits state and year variation in school entry regulations. The results show that …

social environment affects women's STEM choices as early as high school. Using administrative data from China, we find that … school, while more high-performing males decrease this likelihood. We also find that peer quality has persistent effects on …