We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level …

effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children’s schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and …

a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score …. Further analysis suggests that students exposed to creative peers become more creative, but do not adjust their overall study … effort. This is in line with the idea that creative approaches and questions of peers help students to master the study …

To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and … follow a cohort of tertiary students over six years. Students can commit to following their recommended study program … treatment only reminding students to follow the program structure has limited effects. …

participants in a two-sided matching market. We consider the market for medical school programs in Denmark, which uses a … centralized assignment mechanism. Leveraging unique administrative data and an information experiment, we show that students and … rival programs hold payoff-relevant information that each program could use to admit students with higher persistence rates …

, grades, and persistence. I estimate that two thirds of the plan's 9.1 point impact on top-decile students' probability of … attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more … likely to come from low- income high schools, and academically outperform the students that they displace. These effects …

as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course … content and pedagogy. Using 2001-2021 data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) on graduating BAs …

found that opening a local university increased the likelihood of obtaining higher education degrees and had long … marriage. The paper highlights the importance of increasing access to higher education for positive social and labor outcomes …