We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human … should teach their students broader skills. …

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large … confinement measures adopted and the availability of class recordings. We use administrative data on four cohorts of students … of students from different enrolment cohorts observed in the same semester of their academic career before and after the …

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 …

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 …

restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master … probability of continuing studies. -- post-secondary educational attainment ; students’ labor supply ; bivariate Probit models …

This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

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