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 …

education in top colleges accessible to students from peripheral areas who typically did not enroll in university programs …

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, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …

which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated … among students with medium pre-treatment graduation probabilities: when these students are informed about an above …

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

increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …, we exploit the unique German setting where students from states with and without central exams work on the same labor …