investigate the determinantsof university entrance for Dutch high school graduates in 2000, and pay particular attention tothe …-section data on the region of origin of the highschool graduate and the university destination region for first-year students with … behaviour of prospective students is governed by a negative distancedeterrence effect and a downward rent effect, but a positive …

primary school. We focus on pupils’ development of entrepreneurship knowledge and a set of non-cognitive skills relevant for …

effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …

Malawi's tracking program raises school participation of top students without a reduction in pupil learning. These findings …Large scale tracking policies, allowing academically apt pupils to enter a select group of secondary schools, can be … found in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, evidence on the impact of these policies on school outcomes, especially school …

performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group … a women’s empowerment programme in rural India on child immunization and school enrolment. The survey covers both …