educational performance of female students, our empirical analysis shows that the gender gap in student progression (number of …

concentrated among higher and medium-ability students, while lower-ability students receiving financial assistance are discouraged …

undergraduate students' enrolment choices. A before-after estimator with differential treatment intensities is used to investigate … student enrolments and enrolment of students with better entry qualifications after the VTR. Our analysis demonstrates that … enrolment by 5.8%. The effects are larger for high-quality students, namely those with better high school final marks (8.3%) or …

outcomes both in education and on the labour market. Yet few studies explicitly investigate whether students (and their parents … Arianna. However, students (and their parents) are likely to revise their initial choice when new information on their true … Northern Italy (Turin). Virtually all students in the final year of lower secondary education participate into the program and …

students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation … competitive behaviour is negatively evaluated by schoolmates, especially when the class is more homogeneous in terms of students … International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students' literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …