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 …

of the value of financial aid for prospective students. Our results point out that a considerable share of prospective … students are affected by credit constraints. We find that most of the individuals are willing to pay a sizable interest premium … points for a $1,000 loan. The willingness-to-pay for financial aid is highly heterogeneous across students, with preferences …

to three times larger among fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina than among kindergarten and first-grade students … both low-income students and English language learners, particularly for reading achievement. Also, in North Carolina …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

newspaper entering the market …

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that … negative (positive) school quality scores decrease (increase) the number of students choosing a school after the year of …