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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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We investigate the effect of peer group composition on language improvement in language classes for adults. Using unique survey data of migrants participating in an intensive language course in Germany, we find that the age and skill composition of groups affect skill acquisition as assessed by...
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