school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in non-urban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories …

We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full … compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education … resources might dampen the negative externalities associated with misbehaving students, and thus work to improve the performance …

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 … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born …

shows that students may not be informative of the role of social preferences in the broader population. We find that the … representative participants differ fundamentally from students both in their level of selfishness and in the relative importance … differences among the students, males and females in the representative group differ fundamentally in their moral motivation …

This paper analyzes the determinants of the choice of location of international students. Building on the documented … trends in international migration of students, we develop a small theoretical model allowing to identify the various factors … associated to the attraction of migrants as well as the costs of moving abroad. Using new data capturing the number of students …