-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points – equivalent to 3 ….7 native students displaced for 9 additional foreign students in an average course. STEM displacement is offset by an increased …

), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …

Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this … question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian … the best students in the university entrance exam to the group that starts in the first semester, and the other 50 per …