more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The … adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges adopt a less demanding curriculum in order to accommodate the influx … of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of …

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 …

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 …, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …

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 …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

are and which students are at risk of dropping out. We develop an early detection system (EDS) using administrative …

years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …

any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in … economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the …

the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …

. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of … faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we …