natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of … foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild … mild effects on education outcomes, we also find little effect of foreign peers affecting early labour market outcomes of …

Tertiary education has been expanding hugely over the last decades, so that tertiary dropout students will constitute a … career trajectory of dropout students is virtually non-existent. Using data from the 2011 Programme for the International … education labour market chances are better than for equally educated adults in about half of the countries examined …

better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges … selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students …

students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization … those students who did a technical track at high school tend to do better in mathematics than those who followed a social … track at high school and the grades at the university entry exam are the key factors we examine. Our main findings are that …

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 …

students and higher education institutions (HEIs). Matching theory predicts the existence of perfect matching between the two … data on Moscow high school graduates who entered university, the determinants of the mismatch between the quality of … established, the individual student achievement results themselves are subject to the influence of school and family …

achievement. We exploit random assignment of students to university sections and find that students perform better in the presence … of more persistent peers and more risk-averse peers. In particular, low-persistence students benefit from highly …-persistent peers without devoting additional efforts to studying. However, highly-persistent students are not affected by the …

students in the training process and its relation with the rewards given from the superiors for getting better performance at … reinforcements and the end results in the training process. The object of the study are cadets in the last year of their education in …

of attending university as all other students, given their high school achievement. A novel approach to handle potential … tuition loans are available to students. Students most likely to face credit constraints have the same or higher probability …

We evaluate a simple allocation mechanism of students to majors at college entry that was commonly used in universities … in Brazil in the 1990s and 2000s. Students first chose a single major and then took exams that select them in or out of … and is not strategy-proof. This means that some pairs of major & students can be made better off and that students tend to …