Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …

Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely … tracking – grouping students of similar ability – is complicated by the fact that tracking is typically accompanied by changes … in curriculum and the instructional behavior of teachers. To fill this gap, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which …

In a 1-year randomized controlled trial involving thousands of university students, we provide real-time private … all quantiles and extend beyond the time of the intervention. The mechanism behind these findings involves social learning …: rank incentives make students engage more in peer interactions, which lead them to perform significantly better across the …

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized … Bayesian model, we empirically document the interplay between variance reductions and mean changes of beliefs about students … the intervention affects schooling trajectories, with better performing students being assigned into more academically …

children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food … but are important to consider when designing an experiment as causal effects of treatments can be attenuated if the …

foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female …

effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating … interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the …

randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …