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 …

While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …

Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We exploit the British government's formal … new survey of graduating international students, we find that EU graduating students are significantly more likely than … non-EU graduating students to plan on leaving the UK upon graduation immediately after the announcement. Interestingly …

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 …

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. …

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past … teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting successful students may vary with the degree of selectivity of higher … education programmes. We find that teacher scores predict students' performance in higher education more accurately, and its …