educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi …

period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign …-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points – equivalent to 3 …

. One of these locations is the educational campus environment where students reside and carry out their daily academic … associated risks while there has been a dearth of studies on the subject. This paper therefore assessed students’ awareness of … students that were selected using probability sampling techniques. Descriptive analysis was used in computing mean Hazard …

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 …

How did the introduction of the Bachelor-degree system affect students in Germany? Combining rich data on university … students with administrative data on universities' study programs, we exploit variation in the timing of Bachelor …-degree implementation across departments. To account for endogeneity in students' enrollment decisions, we apply an instrumental …

. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of … earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it … generates a strong and significant improvement in academic performance, particularly for students who struggled at the baseline … in terms of lifestyle habits. We also provide evidence on the underlying mechanisms: Students who were incentivized to …

and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students ….e. very high or low levels of average peer ability in a group harm students' grades. These effects are most pronounced for low …-ability students. …

use, and other drivers of academic success with the exam scores of first-year students at two Belgian universities. The …