college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of …

taken during high school. I find that students sort into college majors according to subjects in which they acquired more …This paper assesses the relationship between courses taken in high school and college major choice. Using High School … skills in high school. However, I find a U-shaped relationship between the diversification of high school courses a student …

information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 …

information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family …

Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

. First, the school caps top scores directly. Then, grading competition divides students into a concentrated group of … flexible curriculum. Hence, all students will prefer rigid curricula. Third, the school requires that the mean-score ceiling is …This paper analyzes grading competition between instructors of elective courses when students shop for high course …

The German education system is organised in a federal system, i. e. each of the 16 Federal States is solely responsible … achieving the aim of promoting academic education and increasing the participation opportunities in higher education. An … to empirical investigation. Using panel regressions with fixed effects the transition from school to studies can be …