We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first- time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students' academic … cumulative grade point average (CGPA), parental education and students' sociocultural background. While the authors point out … important factor for determining students' academic performance …

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance …

legislation. In 2010, the rule that forced schools to retain up to a 5% of students was abolished. Exploiting variation in schools …' retention rates in a difference-in-differences framework, we find that retained (marginally non-retained) students improve …

set out the comparison of similar students undergoing alternative progression rules, and to shed light on whether, and to … across curricular tracks, picturing at best – depending on the data employed – a marginal improvement for students in … academic schools. We instead find sharp negative effects of the reform in technical and vocational schools, where the students …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

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 …

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …

We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with … stem from increased competition among schools, rather than directly through expanded choice opportunities. Among students …, students whose catchment school is locally lowest-ranked earn higher scores when they have access to better local schools …

analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic … performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to their higher-income peers. We find a differential effect by students' pre …-COVID-19 academic performance. Top-performing lower-income students experienced a decrease in both grades (5% lower) and earned …