programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …

In this paper, I use survey data from high school students in Texas to examine the magnitude of peer correlation in …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

This paper examines peer effects among graduate students in a Chinese university. We implement a quasi …

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 …