While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …

This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured by using the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The … set of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements …

In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them … or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that imposed a performance … threshold for admission into postsecondary education in Greece to estimate the effect of retaking exams on a range of outcomes …

) over almost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves …Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent …

Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP …) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant … increase in the probability that a district offers bilingual education above this 20-student cutoff. Using this discontinuity …

university. We focus on two core variables: the share of non-English-speaking students and the diversity within the group of non …-English-speaking students with respect to their linguistic background. English-speaking students are largely unaffected by the ethno …-linguistic classroom composition.Non-English-speaking students benefit from a larger diversity in their performance and increase their …

This paper examines peer effects among graduate students in a Chinese university. We implement a quasi …

learning out over time may foster greater longterm memory of items. We use student grades as a measure of performance and find … find that students earn higher grades in classes that meet more often …

This paper discusses the formation of peers in higher education using a unique data set of industrial engineering … students. For identification, we exploit the random assignment of students into groups and student performance before students … the students' union and a mandatory group work course. It is only in the case of the group work course that we report …