Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … traits predictive of performance. Students adopt personality traits that are productive in the university context from their … university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers …

This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … 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 …

experimentally. We executed a large and pre-registered field experiment that randomized students to deskmates within 195 classrooms …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 …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …

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 …

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

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