We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of …

Recent studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on … achievement of boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We … conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are …

This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students … longitudinal data that follow a cohort of Italian students over their compulsory school career, we show that multigrading has a … positive short-term effect on achievements. This effect fades away over time to become negative in the long run if students …

This paper explores how a conditional cash transfer program influences students' schooling decisions when program … payments stop in the middle of the school career. To that end, I examine Mexico's Progresa, which covered students only until …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with …