positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores, based on a sample from … the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from approximately 1500 schools in 14 countries. We perform …

-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … specifications, we find positive returns to attendance and sizeable differences in the effectiveness of teaching assistants, most …

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …

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 … across cohorts, within the same university and the same degree program. The impact of HP students, proxied by their high …, especially for female students in competitive environments, such as the STEM fields, and for low ability students of both genders. …

Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … students' drop out decisions as well as later labor market outcomes. Overall, we find that a one standard deviation increase in … for lower ability students. …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …

from classical estimates (where effort is approximated) if the network includes isolated students. Applying our approach to … data on high school students in the United States, we find that peer effect estimates relying on GPA as a proxy for effort …

a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score …. Further analysis suggests that students exposed to creative peers become more creative, but do not adjust their overall study … effort. This is in line with the idea that creative approaches and questions of peers help students to master the study …

a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …