We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level …

, and a natural experiment conducted on, students from the United States Naval Academy (USNA). We develop a conceptual … rich set of covariates and the random assignment of students to peer groups. We find that students can be influenced by …

We study how the achievements of university students are influenced by the characteristics and achievements of peers in … positive peer effects via the academic achievements of friends and study partners. Students’ grades increase with the abilities … claim that peer influence acts mainly through knowledge-sharing channels between students who are connected by social ties …

university probit regressions were tested. We found that students with similar characteristics such as gender and academic …

effect on wages from Facebook access during college. This positive effect is largest in magnitude for female students, and … students from lower-middle class families.I provide evidence that this positive effect from Facebook access comes through the …

students. For identification, we exploit the random assignment of students into groups and student performance before students … the students' union and a mandatory group work course. It is only in the case of the group work course that we report … of two students who were already similar before …

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …

This study investigates the impact of single-sex versus coeducational schooling on students' decisions to pursue STEM … Australian university, we compare students with similar Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks (ATARs) who could have feasibly … and the academic quality of the high schools attended. Our primary outcomes are the proportion of students from each …