In recent years, there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the
effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. This …

This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly
assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving …

Studienabbrüche sind ein zentrales Themenfeld der Hochschulforschung wie der
Bildungspolitik, das angesichts aktueller Entwicklungen zusätzlich an Relevanz gewinnt …

We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational
attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within …

We evaluate a tracking program in a large urban district where schools with at least one
gifted fourth grader create a separate “gifted/high achiever” classroom. Most seats are filled …

Understanding whether and how connections between agents (networks) such as declared
friendships in classrooms, transactions between firms, and extended family connections …

This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What
are the long-run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using …

Exposure to high-ability peers entails positive learning externalities, but it also decreases
students' academic self-concept because of lower ordinal ability rank. We show that, as a …

This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing that peer
personality influences academic achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to …

In this paper we study how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and
specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of …