We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … design was aimed at disentangling gender differences in taste for competition from other differences in psychological … but different gender composition. We find that females are as likely as males to take part in the competition and to …

. Finally, male teenagers and college students wager substantially less when competing against females. In turn, the gender of … gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10-12), 310 teenagers … (aged 13-17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We measure competitiveness via the likelihood of (i) winning an …

that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

(pre-reform) - for good students from less affluent household - on the optimal schooling decision. For the students who …

In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by … achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

This paper exploits student-level administrative data on the population of Italian university students from 2006 to … the gender of the student. The identification strategy is based on quasi-random variation in the exposure to HP peers … across cohorts, within the same university and the same degree program. The impact of HP students, proxied by their high …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …