first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …

the level of special education provided …

economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments …. Data on study efforts are derived from an electronic learning environment, which records the amount of time students are …. However, we find that impatient students obtain lower grades and fail final exams more often, suggesting that impatient …

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign …-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points–equivalent to 3.7 native …