and white males are lowered by nontrivial amounts when class sizes rise above 49 students. The grades of white females are … unaffected. These findings are consistent with research on outcomes in higher education showing that females, compared to males …

distribution of high school teachers. In this paper, I present the first evidence that matching high school students with same … school, eliminating 99% of observed same-race sorting. Race-matching raises minority students’ course performance as well as … improves longer-term outcomes like high school graduation and college enrollment. Black and Hispanic students matching with a …

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 …

cannot. In general, in the 2011 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data used here, Victorian school students …This study looks at whether differences in student attitudes towards mathematics and science between Victorian students … have more positive attitudes towards mathematics and science than students in high achievement countries. These results …

school education to poor students in Montevideo, Uruguay. The research compares adolescents randomly selected to enter the … education system. We find large positive impacts of Liceo Jubilar on students' promotion rates and academic expectations. Our …Using a randomized trial, we evaluate the impact of Liceo Jubilar, a tuition-free private school providing middle …

-section of students at a medium-size, private university. Results indicate that student interest in personal finance education is … largely a function of perceived return, time cost, financial independence, and gender where female students have relatively … consistently significant to demand. The results support offering learning opportunities for individual personal finance topics in …

-income and first-generation students to achieve college success. We investigate one effort, the Dell Scholars Program, which … provides a combination of financial support and individualized advising to selected students who attend institutions throughout …

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 …

Countries differ in their upper secondary school systems in a way that some require their students to choose a … specialization for the course of their upper secondary education years (e.g. Portugal, Spain, Sweden) whereas by contrast, others … including Finland, Denmark or the U.S. follow a general curriculum where students, albeit being able to choose between different …

This study examines how characteristics of university departments impact students' self-employment intentions. We argue … that four organizational-level factors (entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship support programs, industry ties, and … research orientation) increase such intentions. Using a dataset of 1,530 business students and 132 professors at 25 university …