significantly lower degree performance and higher risk of dropping-out. Especially, Turkish, Moroccan and Caribbean students are …

growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student … than their non-science counterparts. Students with relatively weaker academic preparation are significantly more likely to … leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more …

quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

allocated undergraduate students to feedback provided either by a human instructor, ChatGPT 3.5, or ChatGPT 4. Our results show … that: (i) Students treated with the freely accessible ChatGPT 3.5 received lower grades in subsequent assessments than …

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in … settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a … model that identifies the conditions under which the practice of tracking students by prior achievement increases …

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

This paper studies whether universities should select their students only using specialised subject-specific tests or … students' large administrative dataset. My central finding is that, on average, universities with less specialised admission … policies admit a pool of students who obtain a higher final GPA. …