, and a natural experiment conducted on, students from the United States Naval Academy (USNA). We develop a conceptual … rich set of covariates and the random assignment of students to peer groups. We find that students can be influenced by …

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …

This study investigates the impact of single-sex versus coeducational schooling on students' decisions to pursue STEM … Australian university, we compare students with similar Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks (ATARs) who could have feasibly … and the academic quality of the high schools attended. Our primary outcomes are the proportion of students from each …

based on their academic histories. Results show that an editor's former PhD students and faculty colleagues experience an …

The tracking of students in upper-secondary school is often criticised for narrowing the career prospects of student in … tackle this problem, Australia blurred the lines between the two tracks by introducing VET courses that count to both a …

policies that subsidize kids' socialization efforts can backfire for low-educated students because they tend to increase their … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus …

-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation … tests to show that certain students systematically coordinate their absences. Leveraging a parent-information intervention … on student absences, we find spillover effects from treated students onto peers in their network. We show that an optimal …

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low …

weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for … readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 …

programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …