students from first-year courses (N = 6954) was offered large incentives (worth AUD 55,000) to attend PASS, which increased … was larger (0.89) for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that one hour of … estimate is not statistically significant, reflecting limited statistical power. The estimated effect is largest for students …

scores. Most students also prefer campuses with students of similar race, income, and high school class rank, but only highly …We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find …

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are … students with relevant information, while simultaneously improving post-secondary education matches. … education is more limited. We investigate the causal relationship between information and educational expectations using data …

immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in the United States. To account for the …Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …

We study a college admissions problem in which colleges accept students by ranking students’ efforts in entrance exams …. Students’ ability levels affect the cost of their efforts. We solve and compare the equilibria of “centralized college … admissions” (CCA) where students apply to all colleges and “decentralized college admissions” (DCA) where students only apply to …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic …

experience enhances initial recruitment decisions. For a number of candidate subgroups (by education level and occupation type …

support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …