we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … the expected costs to studying. Among high school pupils, we find that pupils with a more positive view of their academic … and students' characteristics. University students are also poor at estimating their own test-performance and over …

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 …

a greater sorting of students and an increase in the returns to quality. These results somehow justify the recent …

so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two … has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families …

charging students for the costs of their education. …

-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …