centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …

students’ academic outcomes are context-dependent …

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

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 …

This paper investigates the effect of studying abroad on students ́success at university. Using an extensive dataset …, propensity score matching is applied to account for possible self-selection into international mobility. Our empirical analysis …

While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …

. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …,000 students and a total of more than 190,000 observations, spanning six cohorts of first-year undergraduate students across all … the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM disciplines …