randomized experiment. Half of the students who responded to an Internet questionnaire were given factual information on loan … conditions, whereas the other half did not receive such information. Six months later, students who received information have …

conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … manipulated and students are randomly assigned to these groups. Boys tend to postpone their dropout decision when surrounded by … effects on achievement. This in spite of the fact that students' perceptions of the behavior of themselves and their peers are …

This paper studies the effects of enrollment in an elite school on students’ achievement. We use that elite schools in … effects on achievement of students who just qualify for the highest academic track and positive effects on achievement of … students from the top of the baseline ability distribution. These results reconcile contrasting findings from previous studies …

engagement, having friends, and students' personality. It seems therefore that the concerns that parents of lottery losers …, attitudes towards school, awareness of parents, behavior inside school, behavior outside school, school satisfaction, civic … express about their children's school assignment are based on the characteristics of schools, teachers and peers and not on …