application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We …

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 …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …