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 …

We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior high school students, taking … weakest students. We also show that class size is endogenous and tends to increase with unobserved student ability. The … Average Treatment Effect (ATE) of grade retention is negative, again with the exception of the weakest group of students …

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …