We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …

This paper exploits student-level administrative data on the population of Italian university students from 2006 to … across cohorts, within the same university and the same degree program. The impact of HP students, proxied by their high …, especially for female students in competitive environments, such as the STEM fields, and for low ability students of both genders. …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …

education: college major choice and demographic diversity, including the race/ethnicity, and gender of students. More broadly …

admission scores, driven by students expected to be at the top. The effect on admission scores does not affect enrolment, but … the percentage of female students in the most selective degrees declines, along with their career prospects. Using data on … college performance of pre-reform cohorts, we find that female students most likely to lose from the reform tend to do better …

We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … larger classes. This difference suggests that direct and frequent interactions between students and professors are important … increase performance of female students. …

female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …

This study investigates the impact of single-sex versus coeducational schooling on students' decisions to pursue STEM … Australian university, we compare students with similar Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks (ATARs) who could have feasibly … and the academic quality of the high schools attended. Our primary outcomes are the proportion of students from each …