within 15 years of graduation. Next, we use the exogenous assignment of students into sections to show that a larger …

I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …

Survey) and match this to administrative longitudinal data on over 40,000 students. Value added regressions with rich … for students from low-income backgrounds. In a hypothetical scenario where a learner is moved from a college at the 10th …

and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one … activities. The review shows substantial losses in cognitive skills on achievement tests, particularly for students from …

by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …

and current account deficits, which have in turn driven Greece’s foreign indebtedness to alarming levels, necessitating … the current bailout by the EU/ECB/IMF. -- debt ; deficits ; political economy ; fiscal crisis ; Greece …

-born cohorts. -- famine ; health ; regression discontinuity ; Greece …