For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

marginal fiscal recovery rate, i.e. the ratio of the change in total net fiscal revenues and the change in total subsidy costs … of the net fiscal revenue gain and the subsidy cost of a degree in tertiary education. Second, we use the sufficient …. This average hides substantial heterogeneity between countries. In six countries (Australia, Israel, the Netherlands …

female students’ interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …

in motivating desirable behaviour. In contrast to a standard program, in which students receive a reward conditional on … promise program through a field study involving Indigenous Australian high school students, a population who tends to have … of disadvantaged students. At the same time, we need further research on how to best design such programs to achieve …

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students … four-year students, and we analyze individuals into their mid-30s. For four-year students, we find that state appropriation … adverse debt outcomes, and these students experience substantial increases in their credit score and in the affluence of the …

track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …

foreseen by previous enrollment choices. This paper shows that in educational opportunities and groups of students where …

. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …,000 students and a total of more than 190,000 observations, spanning six cohorts of first-year undergraduate students across all … the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM disciplines …