. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

Millions of high school students who take an Advanced Placement (AP) course in one of over 30 subjects can earn college … that 15 percent of students' AP courses do not result in an AP exam. We predict that up to 32 percent of the AP courses … district exam subsidies on AP exam-taking rates. In fact, students on free and reduced-price lunch (FRL) in the districts that …

administrative data for the universe of students in a Master's program in Management and Finance in Italy over 2011-2015. We measure …'s achievement, both in the short and in the long run. However, further estimates reveal interesting heterogeneities across students …, being active teaching more effective in the case of females and students from secondary schools with an academic track. …

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 …

likely to study other Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities than students whose parents are university graduates. We also find … evidence that FiF students are less likely to graduate from elite universities and have a higher probability of dropping out …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …

the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …

This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle … schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing … the administrative data of students from a city in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, we estimated the effects of class closures …

university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …

centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …