While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …

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 …

This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to …

Analyzing how working students weather personal economic shocks is increasingly important as the fraction of college … students working substantial hours has increased dramatically over the past few decades. Using administrative data on Ohio … college students linked to matched firm-worker data on earnings, we examine how layoff affects the educational outcomes of …

Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental … remaining school years to provide the same overall instruction time and curriculum. Using aggregated administrative data on the … full population of students, we find that the reform increases grade repetition rates and lowers final grade point averages …

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

Recent studies emphasize the importance of socio-emotional skills for the success in school as well as for later …

strongly influenced by school results. The weak school system has a major influence on who reaches matric, and how they perform …