We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as … volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students' efforts to raise lifetime income and universities' activities to improve teaching quality are …

This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary education system. The study decomposes wage … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable …

We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and … behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on … changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …

We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent … research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a … study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background …

effect of fees on applications to higher education. It focuses on two policy changes: the removal of upfront tuition fees in …

market and education systems?Third, do the returns to ISM differ according to the socio-economic background of the students … selection bias: the different composition of students opting and not opting for studying abroad. The purpose of this paper is to …? Results are compared between Italy and the UK using Italian Institute of National Statistics and UK Higher Education …

Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We exploit the British government's formal … new survey of graduating international students, we find that EU graduating students are significantly more likely than … non-EU graduating students to plan on leaving the UK upon graduation immediately after the announcement …

We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to … unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for endogeneity between absence and academic performance of students stemming … features of the data such as the random assignment of students to classes and information on the timetable of classes, which …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …