and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many students results at least in part from the …

which their students defaulted. I examine the predicted institutional responses under a variety of possible penalties and … economic efficiency in terms of costs due to a reallocation of students across sectors. …

(baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …

studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the effects on students' budgets. To identify causal effects, we … exploited the natural experiment established by the introduction of fees. They did not affect students' spending behavior … students increased their budgets only marginally; fees did not increase social inequality. …

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 …

We examine the effect of a gifted and talented program in academic secondary education. Students are assigned based on … program effects. We find that assigned students obtain higher grades, follow a more science intensive curriculum (most notably … in university, where students choose more challenging fields of study with, on average, higher returns. Together, these …

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 …

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