We examine college students’ interaction within classrooms and estimate peer effects on their academic performance. We … identification strategy based on students’ repeated interaction. Our findings show that a student’s performance in a class is …- acteristics. Also quantile regressions reveal that peer effects are significant among below-average students and among those at …

This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …

preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that enrolling in a selective college improves only females' exam scores. Further …

scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …

scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …