exposure to high-performing female peers in mathematics increases the likelihood that women choose a science track during high … mathematics provide an affirmation effect that encourages female classmates to pursue a STEM track …

foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …

counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to … high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … show that studying with more female peers in business school increases gender segregation in educational choice and affects …

student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self … partially driven by a lower self-confidence on own math ability of girls exposed to gender biased teachers. The findings are …

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 …

than serving a particular socio-economic group. We exploit this fact to test whether the gender composition of schools … single-sex schooling reduces the gap. If anything, the gender differential is larger for children educated in single …

impacts first-semester English grades for first-generation students. Our findings for math are inconclusive, with at best …Higher education policymakers are concerned about the success of first-generation college students. In this study, we … investigate one potential factor that may influence outcomes: first-generation students' peers. To mitigate common biases that may …

educational outcomes of low-income students and has negative effects on high-income students. We further document a range of …

find heterogeneous peer effects of limited English students on natives' performance in math and reading. Specifically, we …. 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 …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full … socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education …