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 …

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and … about their students' reading achievements by using a randomized controlled trial. We find that the teachers' baseline … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …

are more detrimental for the math and reading achievement of boys and the reading achievement of low-income students …

education, one essential aspect is that “good” peers can potentially improve students’ academic achievement, career choices, or …

We examine college students’ interaction within classrooms and estimate peer effects on their academic performance. We … identification strategy based on students’ repeated interaction. Our findings show that a student’s performance in a class is …- acteristics. Also quantile regressions reveal that peer effects are significant among below-average students and among those at …