groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find that school-starters benefit from exposure to second-graders in measures of …

longitudinal data that follow a cohort of Italian students over their compulsory school career, we show that multigrading has a …

The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers …, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this … paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender composition on scholastic achievements of boys and girls in Israeli …

We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across … birth cohorts. Our approach differs from the existing literature, which exploits variation in gender composition at a given … generally yields spurious gender peer effects when there is grade retention. The birth cohort approach applied to primary …

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and … robust to school fixed effects, cannot be explained by broader cohort effects or general anti-social behaviors in male peer …