and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student … analyses separately for affirmative action students and regular students. The main results suggest that affirmative action …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

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 …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …

students’ lower levels of educational attainment. Based on standardized exams (SAT Suite) and a survey of rural Michigan … students in grades 8–11, we find that rural students with broadband home Internet access are more interested in school and … find that students who are not dependent on a cell phone for Internet access and those with higher digital skills …

Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in the United States. To account for the … different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the … organise their educational systems, have a crucial bearing on how immigrant students affect their peers. …

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the … organise their educational systems, have a crucial bearing on how immigrant students affect their peers …

shows that there are 7 students who have a low response to the learning activity (18%), 23 students have an average response … to the learning activities (61%) and 8 students have a high response to learning activities. Two other categories, none … of the students had very low and very high responses to learning activities (0%). This study also confirmed that Ho was …

centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …