This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and … measure of student-to-degree match employing minimal assumptions. We find that students who are the first in the family to … contrast, only the highest achieving female students relatively undermatch. These gaps are larger at the application stage. We …

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment …

concentrated among higher and medium-ability students, while lower-ability students receiving financial assistance are discouraged …

immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students … during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college campuses, and the city's shutdown. Low-income students are identified by … whether they ever received the federal Pell Grant. We find that low-income college students were 8% more likely than general …

tuition levels and increases when targeted at non-EU students. …

under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty on education costs and future returns. Students, applying a learning by … - students' characteristics, abilities and behavior; parental background and family networks; characteristics of the tertiary … resulting from the encompassing analysis is to provide an all-inclusive orientation activity for students, before they enroll at …

charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with … register data covering the universe of students to show that tuition fees increased degree completion among incumbent students …. Investigating mechanisms, we do not find that educational quality changed but that incumbent students raised their study effort. In …