Students of social inequality have noted the presence of mechanisms militating toward
cumulative advantage and increasing inequality. Social scientists have established that …

The study of social interactions has enriched both the domain of inquiry of economists and
the way economists conceptualize individual decision making. The review aims to introduce …

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) provides great potential to experimentally investigate effects of
peers on student learning in class and to strategically deploy virtual peer learners to improve …

This paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on student test scores.
By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and …

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 …

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

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

We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on peer effects in education. Theoretical
models of peer effects are first summarized. Models of educational provision regimes in …

Existing evidence on peer effects in the productivity of coworkers stems from either
laboratory experiments or real-world studies referring to a specific firm or occupation. In this …