We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of … universities in the Netherlands, making differences in the prestige of fields of study more prominent. …

conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … manipulated and students are randomly assigned to these groups. Boys tend to postpone their dropout decision when surrounded by … effects on achievement. This in spite of the fact that students' perceptions of the behavior of themselves and their peers 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 …

the status of the entrepreneur. For reasons outlined in the introduction, this study focuses on (800) students in the … Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …

that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …