This Paper reports a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University … particular, students with high maths skills and students with higher educated fathers have higher passing rates and collect more … treatment status, these students claim that they have studied harder as a consequence of the rewards. …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that -- (i) at … smallest and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of …

particularly important for students at an early (and highly selective) phase of higher education. They are shown to have pursued …

teach students. To attend university, and earn higher incomes in the labour market, students pay a tuition fee, and each … considerations -- which would tend to equalise the number of students attending each university -- with considerations of efficiency … on the production side, which suggest that the most productive universities should teach more students and carry out more …

cost of public funds, and there is a substantial redistribution from students to outsiders. …

students in Europe. We use various measures on the quality of a country’s higher education system in an extended gravity model …. We find that quality has a positive and significant effect on the size and direction of flows of students exchanged …

A student's future log-wage is given by the sum of a skill premium and a random personal ‘ability’ term. Students … sorting on the basis of test scores. Students optimally self-select as a result of pricing only. In the absence of …, and can even become negative, if the precision of the university's private assessment of students' abilities is high …

and the students' low willingness to travel to other institutions. Furthermore, we find that the financial incentives …