This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …

This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable …

We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and … behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on … changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The …

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 …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of 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 …

application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …