characteristic of same-age neighbors their gender affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is … female neighbors improves both male and female students' high school and university outcomes. We also find that female …

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 … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …

We study how a large household windfall affects sorting of relatively disadvantaged youth over high school tracks by … returns. The observed change in stated preferences across tracks effectively alters school placement, and bears a positive …

high earnings. In this paper, we investigate how the gender composition of peers in business school affects women's and men … counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to …'s major choices and labor market outcomes. We find that women who are randomly assigned to teaching sections with more female …

predictions from this framework we find that an increase in the share of low-income peers within school-cohorts improves the … that social cohesion, through better connections in the school network, has an important role in mitigating the effects of …

using the within-classroom ranking of the ratio of early-high school performance in STEM over non-STEM subjects. We find … to choose a STEM school track and apply to a STEM degree. Comparative STEM advantage appears irrelevant for males. Our …