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

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 …