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20172026
most citedClass attendance, peer similarity, and academic performance in a large field study

149 citations · 158 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

econ.EM2026

Engineering Social Networks: How Initial Group Assignment Shapes Student Social Interactions

Johanna Einsiedler, Nikolaj Arpe Harmon, David Dreyer Lassen +1

A large literature uses exogenous variation to estimate how assignment to classrooms or other groups shapes social networks. Yet most of these analyses remain dyadic, treating each…

physics.soc-ph2025

The origins of large-scale structure in family networks

Lasse Mohr, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Sune Lehmann

Family relations are the most fundamental of all social networks and encompass everyone. Family networks grow as individuals have children, creating connections between families, w…

cs.CY2024

Trading off performance and human oversight in algorithmic policy: evidence from Danish college admissions

Magnus Lindgaard Nielsen, Jonas Skjold Raaschou-Pedersen, Emil Chrisander +4

Student dropout is a significant concern for educational institutions due to its social and economic impact, driving the need for risk prediction systems to identify at-risk studen…

cs.SI2024★ 3 cited

Unveiling the Social Fabric: A Temporal, Nation-Scale Social Network and its Characteristics

Jolien Cremers, Benjamin Kohler, Benjamin Frank Maier +7

Social networks shape individuals' lives, influencing everything from career paths to health. This paper presents a registry-based, multi-layer and temporal network of the entire D…

econ.GN2023

Playing the system: address manipulation and access to schools

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Lykke Sterll Christensen, Mikkel Høst Gandil +1

Strategic incentives may lead to inefficient and unequal provision of public services. A prominent example is school admissions. Existing research shows that applicants "play the s…

cs.CY2020★ 6 cited

Ambient heat and human sleep

Kelton Minor, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Sigga Svala Jonasdottir +2

Ambient temperatures are rising globally, with the greatest increases recorded at night. Concurrently, the prevalence of insufficient sleep is increasing in many populations, with…

cs.CY2017

Academic Performance and Behavioral Patterns

Valentin Kassarnig, Enys Mones, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen +3

Identifying the factors that influence academic performance is an essential part of educational research. Previous studies have documented the importance of personality traits, cla…

cs.SI2017★ 149 cited

Class attendance, peer similarity, and academic performance in a large field study

Valentin Kassarnig, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Enys Mones +2

Identifying the factors that determine academic performance is an essential part of educational research. Existing research indicates that class attendance is a useful predictor of…