Self-, Peer-, and Teacher Perceptions under School Tracking

For useful comments, we thank José Montalbán Castilla, Matteo Sandi, and Bennett Smith-Worthington, as well as participants in the 2022 Behavioral Workshop in Gothenburg, the 2022 CESifo Conference on Economics of Education, McGill University, and the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. For financial support, we are grateful to the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP) and the Faculty Grants Program at SIPA (Columbia). For outstanding research assistance, we thank Yuliya Borodina, Naman Garg, and Matías Martínez. Local IRB approval was received through Gallup Romania, which had permission from the Romanian Government to conduct human subject research. Gallup Romania shared the de-identified data with Andreea Mitrut, the PI on the project, who received IRB approval from the University of Gothenburg. Andreea Mitrut gratefully acknowledges support from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (P17-0122:1). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.