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 …

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 …

the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …

the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …

This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of … a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …

This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle … schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing … the administrative data of students from a city in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, we estimated the effects of class closures …

administrative data for the universe of students in a Master's program in Management and Finance in Italy over 2011-2015. We measure …'s achievement, both in the short and in the long run. However, further estimates reveal interesting heterogeneities across students …, being active teaching more effective in the case of females and students from secondary schools with an academic track. …

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship … program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice … show that the program does not have the intended effects: the effect on students' self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is …

a substantial increase in the number of students aged 21 or above. This is likely to have been driven by post …