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 …

In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor
mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending …

Notes: In this table, we present the results of regressions of school effects on a set of
baseline variables. Each regression includes neighborhood by old school zone fixed effects …

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 …

Today, boys generally underperform relative to girls in schools throughout the industrialized
world. Building on theories about gender identity and reports from prior ethnographic …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the
human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many …

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 …

We present in this paper evidence about the effects and mechanisms of gender peer effects
in elementary, middle, and high schools. For identification, we rely on idiosyncratic …

This paper compares the educational attainment of second-generation immigrants with that
of children born to native parents in several OECD countries. We show that the average gap …

We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a
natural experiment to estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey …