performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …

seem more pronounced for women and low-income students. In addition, there is little evidence that the effects of high … access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using …

of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea … is that students drop out of college mainly because they fail to complete the requirements for earning a degree. This … introduces two levels of ability selection that reinforce each other. (i) In college, low ability students typically do not …

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of U.S. college students drop out without earning a bachelor … develop a quantitative model of college choice. The innovation is to model in detail how students progress towards a college … predict whether they will graduate with at least 80% probability. As a result, stylized policies that insure students against …

admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … income premium. I find that students with a just-above-threshold score are less likely to be college dropouts, take six fewer … administrative records about high school, college admission, college attendance and tax returns. Students with score just above the …

higher income dispersion. Average quality decreases under both systems when the skill premium increases. Moving from a single …

completion and earnings. These patterns imply that, on average, students benefit from “overmatch” of the sort generated by … move lower ability students to higher quality colleges …

selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that … are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students …, we find a significant positive correlation between the share of international students and the private funding share for …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students …