paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

In light of the recent bans on affirmative action in higher education, this paper provides new evidence on the effects … of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of second-decile minority …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students’ major … choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to …

In Sweden, females outperform males on compulsory and high school GPAs by a third of a standard deviation, while males …-selection into taking the SAT. Our findings imply large effects of the choice of university admission criterion on admitted students …

application decisions of men and women. After the reform, fewer students applied to higher education and the reform especially …We study how admission policies in higher education affect enrollment decisions of men and women and the decision to … be admitted to higher education, we estimate a structural model to analyze how the responsiveness to admission …

students' perceptions. We find that the average perceived option value is 65% smaller than the average actual option value ($8 … policy implications related to college entrance, we do not find evidence that students understate the overall value of …

essential UBB input. Our results suggest that ultra-fast connections significantly decrease students’ performance in Mathematics … and Italian language in 8th grade. Instead, we do not find any significant effect in 2nd and 5th grade. Male students from …

the effect by comparing a student's academic performance before and after turning 21. We find that students' grades fall … evolution of performance as students make progress towards their degrees …

intervention, gaps in college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 30 to 50 percent …