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 …

This paper studies whether universities should select their students only using specialised subject-specific tests or … students' large administrative dataset. My central finding is that, on average, universities with less specialised admission … policies admit a pool of students who obtain a higher final GPA. …

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

We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … larger classes. This difference suggests that direct and frequent interactions between students and professors are important … increase performance of female students. …

female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …

admission scores, driven by students expected to be at the top. The effect on admission scores does not affect enrolment, but … the percentage of female students in the most selective degrees declines, along with their career prospects. Using data on … college performance of pre-reform cohorts, we find that female students most likely to lose from the reform tend to do better …

engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i … relationship between studying STEM and voting. To do so, we create a dataset of over 23 million students in the U.S. matched to … school and college students to voting outcomes. It also contains a rich set of demographic and academic variables, to account …

persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to instructors for identification … institutional withdrawal for the students in our sample, which is in turn linked to lower likelihood of returning the following … semester. Our findings reinforce the importance of academic momentum: remaining in a course keeps students attached to college …

We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college …-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies … markedly different voting rates. Next, after controlling for students' college application portfolios and pre-college voting …

received by more selective universities, suggestive of students with more alternatives choosing to study elsewhere. Furthermore …, applications appear to have dropped the most among EU students originating from countries with weaker labor markets and economies …