Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far?

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The likely impact of COVID-19 on education: Reflections based on the existing literature and recent international datasets (2020, background): “The student can also develop an interest in reading or in mathematics thanks to his/her peers (Sacerdote 2011).”
Random Coefficients on Endogenous Variables in Simultaneous Equations Models (2014, background): “Sacerdote (2011) and Epple and Romano (2011) give extensive surveys of this literature.”
The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools (2011, background): “A voluminous literature, summarized in a recent survey by Sacerdote (2011), reveals a strong association between the performance of students and their classmates.”
Network Effects and Social Inequality (2012, background): “Network externalities began to receive extensive attention in economics in the 1980s, primarily among industrial-organization scholars interested in how particular firms or technologies lock in a dominant position in their markets (Arthur 1989).”
A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment (2017, background): “Specifications 3 and 4 account for the most important peer effects highlighted in the traditional literature on linear peer effects (e.g., Sacerdote 2011), as well as the recent literature on nonlinear peer effects (Tincani 2015).”