enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher … average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The evidence points to students making pre-college choices that caused … this divergence. Using linked survey-administrative data, we present evidence consistent with students being averse to …

This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …

significantly improves students' reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …

We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of secondary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

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