We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

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 …

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 …

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 …

students from first-year courses (𝑁 = 6954) was offered large incentives (worth AUD 55,000) to attend PASS, which increased … was larger (0.89) for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that one hour of … estimate is not statistically significant, reflecting limited statistical power. The estimated effect is largest for students …

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 …

technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school … learning outcomes on average, but a positive effect on test scores in Swedish and English among students with highly educated …