-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …

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 …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … 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 …

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 …

qualified international students from attending US colleges and universities. However, citizens from five countries are de facto … exempt from the 2003 H-1B visa restrictions. Using international students from these five exempt nations as the control and … other international students as the treatment group, we study the effects of the 2003 H-1B policy change on the pool of …