environments. However, disadvantaged students have lowerparticipation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their … across allcountries that disadvantaged students do not only lose out on mobility experience due totheir background but also …

In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi … and the oldest students within each cohort. Our data allow to control for potential selection issues as well as for … school children, we document that in university the youngest students perform better compared to their oldest peers …

migration varies considerably across cities, and there is significant heterogeneity for students from universities of different … important role in raising the probability of staying. College education increased the students' interaction with the local …

attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003–2011 are … may be an effective way of reducing 'brain drain' from southern Italy …

opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university level. The reform that we consider obligated all minority students … that the reform resulted in a decline in the number of subjects taken by minority students at the school exit test. There … was also a notable shift in the take-up of particular subjects, with fewer exams taken by minority students in more …

Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … of the importance of credit constraints within this population. I find that students who obtain high school grades just … a four-year college and much less likely to attend a community college than students with grades just below the …

of students, though rates have risen at flagship universities. Finally, despite some weak association with increased …

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance …

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 …