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 …

-induced school closures on students' time spent with different educational activities. Chapters 4 and 5 are concerned with the …Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of human capital formation and education …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children's schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and …

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 …

), we show that shortly after relative to before that time, college plans among high-school students increased substantially … expected returns to education, they exhibited a slower adjustment in their preferences relative to younger cohorts. …

education had negative results for learning. … 2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics course across twelve instructors to either … an online or in-person class. Final grades for online students dropped by 0.215 standard deviations; a result apparent in …

, and a natural experiment conducted on, students from the United States Naval Academy (USNA). We develop a conceptual … framework to highlight that individuals can emulate others for both information (social learning) and for socializing (network … rich set of covariates and the random assignment of students to peer groups. We find that students can be influenced by …

. 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 …

effect on the individual decision to attend university and observe stronger peer effects among groups of students of similar …