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

students' forecasts of their exam grades. Part of a student's grade expectation is based on the student's previous academic … five hundred second-year undergraduate students enrolled in a statistics course in Moscow. The course contains three exams … and each student produces a forecast for each of the three exams. Students' expectations are not rational and most of …

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship … program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice … show that the program does not have the intended effects: the effect on students’ self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is …

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and … an important route for students from a lower socioeconomic background. …

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 …