Cools, Angela; Fernández, Raquel; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2019
by exploiting quasi-random variation in the exposure of students to peers with highly-educated parents across cohorts …-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect … within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases …