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 studies how peers in school affect students' mental health. Guided by a
theoretical framework, we find that increasing students' relative ranks in their cohorts by one …

El clima escolar es un tema central en la discusión educativa del último tiempo debido a su
asociación con el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes, existiendo una amplia …

School violence can exert immediate and enduring effects on the human capital
development of students. Despite extensive discussions on the causes of school violence …

Despite the increasing scientific attention given to hate speech, there is a lack of empirical
studies examining the effect of hate speech among secondary school students and its …

Whilst a growing literature has documented the link between academic rank and
educational progression, the effect of socioeconomic rank on these outcomes has been …

In this study, we examine the impact of a student's household socioeconomic status (SES)
rank within a class on two critical factors affecting the accumulation of human capital: school …

We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in
schools. We propose a theoretical framework based on reference dependence where …

This paper analyses how different levels of exposure to Covid-19 affected the local labour
demand in Italy during the pandemic. Due to the spatially heterogeneous incidence of …

I estimate the effect of being the best in the class in primary school on performance in
secondary school. I implement a novel methodology that exploits that some students are the …