integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of … classroom. Our analysis is based on a comprehensive survey of 4th-grade students in German primary schools, which contains … detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school …

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 paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who … several subjects. In the medium run, college enrollment increases by 8 percentage points for these students. This is due to …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who … several subjects. In the medium run, college enrollment increases by 8 percentage points for these students.This is due to …

The study examined the factors that affect students' academic achievement in Zimbabwe's rural Secondary Schools with … methodology and the population sample was drawn from teachers, Form 3 and Form 4 students and parents in the native area. The … as well as discipline and order are the major internal factors affecting students' academic achievement. The identified …