Why is the proportion of women who study Economics so low? This study assesses whether students respond to messages … 2,000 students enrolled in Economics Principles courses, with interventions proceeding in two phases. In the first phase …, randomly assigned students received a message with basic information about the Economics major, or the basic message combined …

effects on university students enrolled in the Erasmus exchange program. We use administrative data on all exchange students …—the youngest cohort students participate less often to the Erasmus exchange program than older cohort members. …

grades. However, course grades of first-generation students decrease in response to Honors admission, driven by low …-achieving students at public universities, but not all students benefit from Honors admission. …

We design a commitment contract for college students, "Study More Tomorrow," and conduct a randomized control trial … testing a model of its demand. The contract commits students to attend peer tutoring if their midterm grade falls below a … studying tested in the literature. We find demand for the contract, with take-up of 10% among students randomly assigned a …

under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty on education costs and future returns. Students, applying a learning by … - students’ characteristics, abilities and behavior; parental background and family networks; characteristics of the tertiary … resulting from the encompassing analysis is to provide an all-inclusive orientation activity for students, before they enroll at …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

University students' smartphone use has recently been shown to negatively affect their academic performance … performance. To this end, we examine longitudinal data on 1,635 students at two major Belgian universities. Based on a combination …