This article provides a comprehensive review of the socio-economic literature on the student
determinants of tertiary education dropout, in order to help research scholars better …

Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on
education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making …

This chapter summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the
elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Linear-in-means models find modest …

Why aren't there more women in science? This paper begins to shed light on this question
by exploiting data from the US Air Force Academy, where students are randomly assigned to …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks.
We develop a taxonomy of “macro” and “micro” characteristics of social-interaction networks …

We estimate peer effects in paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity
design. Coworkers and brothers are 11 and 15 percentage points, respectively, more likely …

Remediation is one of the largest single interventions intended to improve outcomes for
underprepared college students, yet little is known about the remedial screening process …

We analyze the impact of classroom peers' ability (measured by their individual fixed effects)
on student achievement for all Florida public school students in grades 3–10 over a 6-year …

A large and growing literature has documented the importance of peer effects in education.
However, there is relatively little evidence on the long-run educational and labor market …

We take cohorts of entering freshmen at the United States Air Force Academy and assign
half to peer groups designed to maximize the academic performance of the lowest ability …