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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 and one's relative position within this group. The Italian public school setting is an advantageous quasi-laboratory to investigate this question. Using panel da...
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... we look at how immigration status might affect the rank effect. Again, Figure 8 shows that no there is no significant difference, even if point estimates suggest that the rank effect might be exacerbated for immigrants, i.e., they benefit more from being at the top and suffer more from being at the bottom. Finally, we compare students whose SES is below the national median and those whose SES is above. ...