This paper investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using … quality of students, significant differences emerge across universities in students' degree performance. We apply a two …-stage estimation procedure and find evidence that a large part of 'university effects' cannot be explained by the kind of institutional …

This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the … ability students and students from higher social backgrounds have higher passing rates and collect more credit points when … assigned to (higher) reward groups. Students in the reward groups, however, do not report to have studied more hours. …

identify its effects on test scores. We find that allowing disadvantaged pupils to start school one month earlier increases … children. To do so it exploits two features of the Dutch schooling system. First, children are allowed to enroll in school on … same class. Together these features generate sufficient exogenous variation in children s potential time in school to …

academic performance. We start by introducing a simple theoretical model in which students decide the optimal allocation of … using data from first year undergraduate students of economics in the academic year 1998-99 at the University of Ancona …

This paper analyses the effect of school quality on early career earnings. Using confidential district level …

the number of public-school applications but a negative impact on private- school applications. Finally, we find no …