students, the share of graduate students wishing to continue their education (doing a PhD) was higher. The following …Since national independence, the government of Uzbekistan has been paying attention to developing its education system …, including agriculture. A number of regulations have been adopted in order to address the problems in education. Among these, the …

This paper exploits discontinuities in the assigment of scholarships targeted at low income students in an Italian … University in order to evaluate the effects of monetary incentives on students' academic achievement. Results reveal positive and … sizeable causal effects both in terms of credits and grades. Gender differentials also emerge: male students drive the results …

university. We exploit data from a setting where students are randomly assigned to teaching sections and find that students with … on students' careers. …

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

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …-of-origin cultural traits in models with residence-country fixed effects. Associations of culture with family and school inputs suggest …

in compulsory school) by examining tertiary education outcomes. We investigate whether there is evidence of relative age … effects on university students enrolled in the Erasmus exchange program. We use administrative data on all exchange students … - the youngest cohort students participate less often to the Erasmus exchange program than older cohort members. …

Why is the proportion of women who study Economics so low? This study assesses whether students respond to messages … 2,000 students enrolled in Economics Principles courses, with interventions proceeding in two phases. In the first phase …, randomly assigned students received a message with basic information about the Economics major, or the basic message combined …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …-of-origin cultural traits in models with residence-country fixed effects. Associations of culture with family and school inputs suggest …

This paper focuses on inequalities in learning opportunities for individuals coming from different socioeconomic … institutions in shaping countries’ relative positions. Based on harmonised 15- year old students’ achievement data collected at the … found to reduce school socio-economic segregation without affecting overall performance. Countries that emphasise childcare …

university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …