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 …

behavioral biases among lower educated and younger students could explain these contrasting findings. …

administrative student and labor market data. Our estimates show that the average regional expansion in first-year BA students …

. 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 …

role models on female preferences for STEM majors. We conduct a randomized control trial where female senior students … selected high schools. We find that exposure to this treatment increases high ability female students' preferences for … engineering programs by 14 percentage points. The effect is only statistically significant for the subgroup of female students …

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. …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …