In the past 10 years, there has been an explosion of well-identified studies that measure
peer effects across many settings and for many outcomes. The emphasis on natural …

When I started writing this book, I knew I'd need to read piles of research but failed to foresee
the enormity of the piles. Education isn't just a major industry; it inspires researchers' …

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 …

I exploit a natural experiment in Indian schools to study how being integrated with poor
students affects the social behaviors and academic outcomes of rich students. Using …

Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if
underrepresented minority students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on
college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college …

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 …

This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of
women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate …

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

Using a controlled experiment, we investigate if individuals' risk preferences are affected by
(i) the gender composition of the group to which they are randomly assigned, and (ii) the …