More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …

role models on female preferences for STEM majors. We conduct a randomized control trial where female senior students … selected high schools. We find that exposure to this treatment increases high ability female students' preferences for … engineering programs by 14 percentage points. The effect is only statistically significant for the subgroup of female students …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … actual choice to attend the more academic middle school type. For male students, we find that an increase in class size by 10 …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …

order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …

We study the role of immigrant children's ethnic identity in their educational performance and preferences …/aspirations in Italy. We find that students with a weak sense of Italian belonging show a low performance in reading and mathematics … and higher probability of grade retention. Moreover, children in middle secondary school with a weak sense of Italian …

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … behavioral biases among lower educated and younger students could explain these contrasting findings. …