navigate, such as how to provide for adequate supervision by a registered tax agent of students’ assistance. While students …-efficacy (confidence)? Particularly, with the online environment would students still have sufficient opportunities to develop their self … the tax clinic was able to operate fully online and will provide data concerning the development of students’ self …

This paper explores students’ expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different … stages of higher education. Our findings indicate substantial perceived returns to higher education. Moreover, using within …

. Data on study efforts are derived from an electronic learning environment, which records the amount of time students are … economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments …. However, we find that impatient students obtain lower grades and fail final exams more often, suggesting that impatient …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …

Education researchers have long made inferences about grade retention from the grade distribution of same-aged students …

This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three … record attract and select better students. There is no evidence of an independent effect of having a supervisor who is an …

In the context of a voluntary remedial math course for university students, we conduct randomized field experiments to … study whether social information can help counteract low participation rates. Incoming students receive postal invitation … course, they raise attendance among late enrolling students, which in turn increases their academic performance in the first …

I examine the effects of peer ethnic composition on college students' educational outcomes. I use a sample of freshmen … cohorts from 1991 to 2002 at Texas universities from the Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project data. This paper … the college completion rates of Hispanic students. The results also suggest that the total peer effects on college …

persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to instructors for identification … institutional withdrawal for the students in our sample, which is in turn linked to lower likelihood of returning the following … semester. Our findings reinforce the importance of academic momentum: remaining in a course keeps students attached to college …