focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …

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 …

high school graduates over three decades. We model prospective students' decisions about whether to attend community … college enrollment overall, rising costs at community colleges diverted other students to four-year colleges. Rising relative … costs of four-year public colleges similarly diverted some students toward community colleges but did not limit college …

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past … teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting successful students may vary with the degree of selectivity of higher … education programmes. We find that teacher scores predict students' performance in higher education more accurately, and its …

first-generation students decrease in response to Honors admission, driven by low performance in natural science courses …. Results suggest that selective Honors programs can accelerate skill acquisition for high-achieving students at public … universities, but not all students benefit from Honors admission. …

We design a commitment contract for college students, "Study More Tomorrow," and conduct a randomized control trial … testing a model of its demand. The contract commits students to attend peer tutoring if their midterm grade falls below a … studying tested in the literature. We find demand for the contract, with take-up of 10% among students randomly assigned a …