explaining graduate mobility, we find that top performing students return less often than do low performers. As a consequence the …We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because … not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of …Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However … higher education market. Using rich administrative data, we exploit time variation in the adoption of a clearinghouse across …

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. …

This paper examines the implications of college admissions criteria on students' academic and non-academic performance …-academic qualities. Comparing students admitted through each track, we find that DA students fare similarly in terms of academic … performance in university as marginal students admitted through the regular route. However, they are significantly more likely to …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We exploit the British government's formal … new survey of graduating international students, we find that EU graduating students are significantly more likely than … non-EU graduating students to plan on leaving the UK upon graduation immediately after the announcement. Interestingly …

profiles similar to all majors; Nursing and Education are specialized. These cross-major differences in skill profiles explain …

market and education systems? Third, do the returns to ISM differ according to the socio-economic background of the students …International student mobility is the most recognised element of Erasmus+, a major EU policy. Not enough is known about … selection bias: the different composition of students opting and not opting for studying abroad. The purpose of this paper is to …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …