. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable heterogeneity in the effects experienced by different types of students …. Using nonlinear models, one prevalent finding is larger peer effects in which high ability students benefit from the … presence of other high ability students. Studies that stratify students by race and ability often find that students are …

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in … settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a … model that identifies the conditions under which the practice of tracking students by prior achievement increases …

, mostly through a steady reduction in the number of openings for new students. Individuals that reached college age shortly …

control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction in the number of openings for new students across all universities …

assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With very rich data on seventeen potential …

assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential …

transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …

A model is presented where universities competitively supply education to mobile students. Students are subject to a …-related debt relief, however, the equilibrium quality of education is inefficiently low. This is because students reduce their …

transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …