This Paper reports a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University …

Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not … leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …. The evidence also shows the class size effects are not mitigated for students with greater knowledge of the UK university …

the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of professors from the national to the university level. To capture … familism we use a novel dataset on Italian university professors between 1988 and 2008 focusing on the informative content of … department relative to that in the underlying general population. Our results suggest that increased autonomy by local university …

further years of education because thresholds were lowered at critical stages (i.e. at entry to university and in the early … years of university). These historic events provide a natural experiment to analyse the returns to years of higher education … reflect higher returns from an additional year of university education rather than an additional year of compulsory education …

This paper compares the organisation of the university sector under private provision with the structure which would be … teach students. To attend university, and earn higher incomes in the labour market, students pay a tuition fee, and each … university chooses its tuition fee to maximise the amount of resources it can devote to research. Research bestows an externality …

externalities generated by an individual's higher education, the optimal tuition is then greater than the university's marginal cost … and pre-entry selection based on the university's private information. Optimal tuition can then be set below marginal cost …, and can even become negative, if the precision of the university's private assessment of students' abilities is high …