This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … estimate the return to various measures of college selectivity for a more recent cohort of students: those who entered college … in 1989. We also estimate the return to college selectivity for the 1976 cohort of students, but over a longer time …

There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …

We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to the negative incentive brought on by being … differently based on ability, we find that being placed on probation at the end of the first year discourages some students from … is known, we find that heterogeneous discouragement effects result in high ability students having a greater overall …

subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to …-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …

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 …

start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school … can be derived for one cohort of students, to the 1980 Census, which contains educational attainment for the same cohort … of students. The results suggest that roughly 10 percent of students were constrained to stay in school by compulsory …

of schooling on income and GDP growth. Much microeconometric evidence suggest that education is an important causal … determinant of income for individuals within countries. At a national level, however, recent studies have found that increases in … effect of changes in educational attainment on income growth in cross-country data is at least as great as microeconometric …

This paper tries to reconcile evidence on the effect of schooling on income and on GDP growth from the microeconometric … determinant of income for individuals within countries as diverse as Sweden and the United States. At a national level, however …. After accounting for measurement error, the effect of changes in educational attainment on income growth in cross …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A … variety of evidence suggests that students who were educated in schools with more resources tend to earn more and have higher …