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 …

how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is … a large and selective Chinese high school, where first-year students are separated into high-achieving and regular … design, we show that high-achieving classrooms improve math test scores by 23 percent of a standard deviation, with effects …

Using panel data on Italian students from 2013 to 2019, we compare the effect of a student’s class rank to the effect … standardized tests to control for students' ability. Ranking first in primary school compared to last results in an improvement of …

preference measures from Facebook data. Using a field experiment among university students, chapter 4 shows that the ordering in … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

. These results are consistent with role models inspiring students to overcome gender stereotypes and pursue a STEM career …We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 … find substantial cross-country variation for job preferences, with larger effects in countries with larger gender gaps …

The idea that students benefit from same-sex teachers has motivated policies around the world aimed at reducing gender …

-selection into taking the SAT. Our findings imply large effects of the choice of university admission criterion on admitted students …

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. …

There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …