assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With very rich data on seventeen potential …

assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential …

Objectives: To analyze whether there are causal peer effects in criminal behavior among young students in upper … secondary education. Methods: We follow four cohorts of Danish students (N=27,525) when they complete 9th or 10th grade and … important and significant nonlinear peer effects. Students who enter a program with new peers who have a high crime propensity …

We study how the achievements of university students are influenced by the characteristics and achievements of peers in … positive peer effects via the academic achievements of friends and study partners. Students’ grades increase with the abilities … claim that peer influence acts mainly through knowledge-sharing channels between students who are connected by social ties …

programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …

, and a natural experiment conducted on, students from the United States Naval Academy (USNA). We develop a conceptual … rich set of covariates and the random assignment of students to peer groups. We find that students can be influenced by …

effect on the individual decision to attend university and observe stronger peer effects among groups of students of similar …

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 …