strong students during treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a school intervention has been identified in …

/16 years across 13 European countries. Both instrumental variables and school fixed effects are used for identification …. Omitting school fixed effects, as in some existing IV studies of peer effects, is shown to lead to substantial overestimates … restricting the sample by dropping schools that non-randomly sort pupils into classes. Ultimately, we cannot rule out zero peer …

This paper estimates peer effects on student achievement using a panel data set from a middle school in China. Unique … policy makers who want to exploit positive peer effects face difficult tradeoffs in classroom and school assignment …

administrative data on Texas high school students, we leverage within school-year variation in peer composition at disciplinary …

(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

We leverage the timing of pandemic-induced school closures to learn about the emergence of ordinal rank effects in … peer interactions during the first year of middle school - when students are still unfamiliar with one another …