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 …

We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted … tracks at different schools) to get difference-in-differences (DD) estimates for all students above the admission cutoff …. Second, we use the GT admission rule to get regression discontinuity (RD) estimates for students near the admission cutoff …

quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM … the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM disciplines … particular interest among policy makers for further growth in STEM subjects, which could lead to larger classes in these fields …

, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and … graduating with a STEM degree. Our results indicate that allocating resources towards improving the quality of academic advising …

describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students' academic … cumulative grade point average (CGPA), parental education and students' sociocultural background. While the authors point out … important factor for determining students' academic performance. …

students. However, this may come at a cost since the existing literature emphasises the negative association between …. Specifically, for three consecutive years, students at two Belgian universities, in more than ten different study programmes, were … surveyed on their multitasking preferences and academic performance. Then, these results were merged with the students' exam …

practices and students' use of time in the home based on information from a randomized control trial. The results show that the …. XO laptops also reduce the probability that students will perform household chores between 9 and 40 pp while said … language and the majority of results refer to students in fourth grade of primary. The variety and overlapping of effects may …