In the context of a voluntary remedial math course for university students, we conduct randomized field experiments to … study whether social information can help counteract low participation rates. Incoming students receive postal invitation … course, they raise attendance among late enrolling students, which in turn increases their academic performance in the first …

To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and … follow a cohort of tertiary students over six years. Students can commit to following their recommended study program … structure, and they receive reminders each semester. This easily implementable, low-cost intervention is highly effective: it …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships …An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a …

observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships …An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … several major problems some of which cannot be solved even with random assignment. We design a field experiment and propose a …

This study investigates the impact of a low-cost, color-coded scale intervention designed to inform university students … about the expected workload for a course, with the aim of improving students’ academic performance and learning behaviors … semester. Students who were treated once experienced no significant effect, but those who additionally received the second …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services … offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment …

Using data from a Canadian field experiment on the financial barriers to higher education, we estimate the distribution … of the value of financial aid for prospective students. Our results point out that a considerable share of prospective … students are affected by credit constraints. We find that most of the individuals are willing to pay a sizable interest premium …

role models on female preferences for STEM majors. We conduct a randomized control trial where female senior students … selected high schools. We find that exposure to this treatment increases high ability female students' preferences for … engineering programs by 14 percentage points. The effect is only statistically significant for the subgroup of female students …