scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …

from classical estimates (where effort is approximated) if the network includes isolated students. Applying our approach to … data on high school students in the United States, we find that peer effect estimates relying on GPA as a proxy for effort …

of a two-day freshman orientation program for university students, I find that higher ability peers generate positive … students by 0.05 to 0.08 SD. I provide evidence that the effects result from the formation of lasting social ties, and that …

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … schools operate and how they might be made more effective. In this new framework students have a dual role. They are both (a … behavior of students, teachers and administrators depends on the incentives facing them and the actions of the other actors in …

. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable heterogeneity in the effects experienced by different types of students …. Using nonlinear models, one prevalent finding is larger peer effects in which high ability students benefit from the … presence of other high ability students. Studies that stratify students by race and ability often find that students are …

paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not … strategy addresses students' endogenous sorting into classes by exploiting the within-student across-subjects variation in …. While native students are mostly influenced by the average quality of their peers, immigrant children are detrimentally …