Cheating reduces the signaling value of examinations. It also shifts the focus of teachers and
students away from learning. Combating widespread cheating is difficult as students …

Using panel data on Italian students from 2013 to 2019, we compare the effect of a student's
class rank to the effect of class quality in primary school on subsequent academic outcomes …

We propose a new strategy to identify the impact of class rank, exploiting a" visible" primary
school rank from teachers' exam grades, and an" invisible" rank from unreported …

To reduce cheating in written tests and exams, assessors often randomly vary the order of
questions across students. However, little is known about the potential unintended side …

With the advent of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools, students have a new
instrument that can create writing samples for them, making it easy to violate academic …

HARVARD UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Arts and Sciences DISSERTATION
ACCEPTANCE CERTIFICATE The undersigned, appointed by the De Page 1 HARVARD …

Is it better to be first in a village than second in Rome, as Caesar claimed? Peer groups can
impact later outcomes through two distinct yet related channels: the group's intrinsic quality …