students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students … students of low and medium ability gain on average 0.2 SD units of achievement from switching from ability mixing to three …-way tracking. Their dropout rate is reduced by 15 percentage points (relative to a mean of 0.6). High-ability students are …

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

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 …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female …

(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 … across states. -- Mobility of high-school graduates ; tuition fees ; natural experiment …

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

low-income students at an elite public university. We find that the program increased four-year graduation rates by about … 8 percentage points for eligible students in the cohorts who experienced the fully developed program. For these cohorts … performance. We conclude that aid programs targeting low-income, high-ability students are most successful when they couple grant …