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 …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

Social theories posit that peers affect students' academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big …-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students …' ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students' ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested …

a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score …. Further analysis suggests that students exposed to creative peers become more creative, but do not adjust their overall study … effort. This is in line with the idea that creative approaches and questions of peers help students to master the study …

estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …