This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …

. 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 …

-in-Differences estimator which uses rural students to control for any common time trend. The 2SLS estimates of 17% and 12% for men and women … earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE as a result of the higher education expansion …

and subjective rankings of all college applicants in Denmark, their applications, admissions and college outcomes. We … admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …

examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help … time-inconsistent students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on the … causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved almost four …

restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master …