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. …

scores rightward, moving students into higher quartiles of the state SAT score distribution. Bostonś charter high schools …

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

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 …

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …

Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of …-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have already enrolled in college. To do so, we exploit a unique non …

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 …