We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

initial study. It is shown that neural networks lead to a significant improvement in the prediction of students at risk …

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

different rationality assumptions. There are two types of students and two schools. School of graduation serves as a signal of … student productivity to prospective employers. The benchmark case is when both students and employers are rational. We, then …

of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea … is that students drop out of college mainly because they fail to complete the requirements for earning a degree. This … introduces two levels of ability selection that reinforce each other. (i) In college, low ability students typically do not …

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor … develop a quantitative model of college choice. The innovation is to model in detail how students progress towards a college … predict whether they will graduate with at least 80% probability. As a result, stylized policies that insure students against …

foreseen by previous enrollment choices. This paper shows that in educational opportunities and groups of students where …

This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In … between the countries increase with the income prospects in ROW and the number of international students. Higher stay rates of … foreign students lead to more ambiguous results. In particular, an increase in educational quality can be accompanied by a …

transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …