comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

improves trust and social interaction, and may offer substantial consumption value to some students. We discuss various …

an attempt to determine who benefits from college. Despite the tremendous heterogeneity across potential college students …

depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address … potential biases from sorting by focusing on students with restricted course enrollment options due to low registration … priorities, students not getting first section choices, and on courses with no within-term or within-year racial variation in …

achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common (PISA) scale. We then estimate the share of children not achieving basic …