We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

compared with at-risk part-time students. -- college enrollment ; college dropout ; part-time enrollment …-term attrition from higher education differ for students who initially enrolled part-time as compared to for students who initially …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first- time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

Drawing on data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we show that students who select majors that …

Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … students' drop out decisions as well as later labor market outcomes. Overall, we find that a one standard deviation increase in … for lower ability students. …

average earnings of a college graduate relative to a non-college worker in the population), while 61 percent report net public …

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …

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 …

-time graduation rates. Event study analyses show that these negative effects persist well beyond the transition. Using detailed …

significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students … Academy in which students are randomly assigned to certain courses either during or after the semester in which they are … required to select their college major. We find that when students are assigned to a course in the same semester as they select …