common knowledge. Graduates and graduate jobs are matched by tournament. In laissez faire, only the rich can buy enough … some of the rich buy too much education, and some of the graduates have lower ability than some of the non-graduates … the same quality are assigned to graduates with the same education but different ability. Competition among employers will …

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 …

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 …

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …

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 …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …