observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships …An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a …

observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships …An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … suggests negative though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students and black students on the achievement of … other students, potential peer effects of students from Latin America in general have not been considered. In this paper, we …

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 …

We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …

We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low …-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the …-form effect on higher-achieving students as a spillover effect within treated schools. We then estimate a linear-in-means model of …

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 …

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 …