Previous studies on the effects on students' test scores of their peers' socioeconomic status (SES) have reported …

This paper examines gender peer effects on students' academic and noncognitive outcomes. We use a nationally … representative survey of middle school students in China and focus on schools that randomly assign students to classrooms. Our … findings show that having a higher proportion of female peers in class improves students' test scores and noncognitive outcomes …

achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …

This paper exploits student-level administrative data on the population of Italian university students from 2006 to … across cohorts, within the same university and the same degree program. The impact of HP students, proxied by their high …, especially for female students in competitive environments, such as the STEM fields, and for low ability students of both genders. …