support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …

, 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 …

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003-2011 are …

and randomly assigned teacher-student sample in China. We find that having a more experienced or female homeroom teacher … (HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent … research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a … study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background …

depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with …'s academic performance, parents' aspirations, the mismatch between the two, and parents' satisfaction with different aspects of … satisfaction, regardless of parents' aspirations. High expectations accompanied by low performance are negatively related to …