on income as small as 0.087 percent in primary school and 0.12 percent in middle school. Population differences in …

education induced by the 1999 higher education expansion increases monthly wage income by 21%, whereas the corresponding OLS …

students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students … students of low and medium ability gain on average 0.2 SD units of achievement from switching from ability mixing to three …-way tracking. Their dropout rate is reduced by 15 percentage points (relative to a mean of 0.6). High-ability students are …

programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …

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

attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003-2011 are …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

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 …

"In this paper we investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students' mathematical …