This paper exploits discontinuities in the assignment of scholarships targeted at low income students in an Italian … University in order to evaluate the effects of monetary incentives on students' academic achievement. Results reveal positive and … sizeable causal effects both in terms of credits and grades. Gender differentials also emerge: male students drive the results …

This paper investigates the effect of studying abroad on students' success at university. Using an extensive dataset …

This research examines the benefits of attending HBCUs vs PWI for black college students. Using a College Board Data … graduating with a bachelor's degree for black students attending an HBCU. Additionally, when comparing only those students who …

rate and academic performance of Brazilian college students, based on a fixed effects approach. The results indicate that …

all public school juniors take the SAT®. We find that, overall, the policy increased 4-year college-going rates by 2- to 3 …-percentage points and that 4-year college-going rates among induced students increased by 10-percentage points …

increased the number of free official SAT score reports afforded to low-income students and changed the time horizon over which … fee-waiver recipients, the College Board hoped to increase the number of college applications submitted by these students … and to improve their college match. Using a difference-in-differences analytic strategy, we show that low-income students …

The report illustrates how the different segments of prospective international master’s students make the crucial … including school reputation, career prospects, location and cost. The findings suggest that U.S. colleges and universities can … international students based on their home country, financial resources and the unique value proposition of each university …

skills. This is a particularly acute problem in education policy evaluation. We demonstrate that there are important latent … amount of conscientious effort that students exhibit on surveys, as measured by their item response rates. We use six … with higher item response rates are more likely to attain higher levels of education. The pattern of findings gives …

Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …-effects estimation. Students’ own and peer GPAs and their attitudes towards economics have the largest effects on value-added scores. We …

This study examines the effect of cooperative education, controlling for contextual support and demographic … self-efficacy was found to be the one efficacy form impacted by cooperative education. Since self-efficacy is shaped by … change in students’ confidence in their career orientation. This study claims to open up the so-called “black box of co …