For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its … due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …

enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher … average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The evidence points to students making pre-college choices that caused … this divergence. Using linked survey-administrative data, we present evidence consistent with students being averse to …

In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a …. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM … and non-STEM fields. Using administrative data from a large UK higher education institution, we consider a sample of 25 …

This paper explores students’ expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different … stages of higher education. Our findings indicate substantial perceived returns to higher education. Moreover, using within …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …

This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the … between students’ years spent in ECE and the results of their educational assessment outcomes at age 15.Using PISA survey data …