This systematic review gives an overview of the effects of differentiation practices on
language and math performance in primary education, synthesizing the results of empirical …

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 …

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 …

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 …

To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong
students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers …

This paper applies a regression discontinuity design to the Romanian secondary school
system, generating two findings. First, students who have access to higher achievement …

There is a widespread perception that externalities from troubled children are significant,
though measuring them is difficult due to data and methodological limitations. We estimate …

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 …

We investigate how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM
at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation …

In primary and secondary education, measures of teacher quality are often based on
contemporaneous student performance on standardized achievement tests. In the …