tuition fees, with contextual admission for disadvantaged students. An alternative admission channel admits lower …-ability students subject to substantial selection-fees, retained by the under-funded schools. We combine a cumulative multiple … insignificantly different from zero, for students who barely made it into the more selective school. However, the effect of attending …

In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them … or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that imposed a performance … threshold for admission into postsecondary education in Greece to estimate the effect of retaking exams on a range of outcomes …

In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them … or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that imposed a performance … threshold for admission into postsecondary education in Greece to estimate the effect of retaking exams on a range of outcomes …

China experienced a 47% expansion in higher education enrolment between 1998 and 1999, and a six-fold expansion in the … returns to higher education in China. We find that the mean years of education increased by roughly one full year around the … education induced by the 1999 higher education expansion increases monthly wage income by 21%, whereas the corresponding OLS …

In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to … students at the lower end of the schooling distribution and did not lead students to acquire additional qualifications. The …