This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle … schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing … the administrative data of students from a city in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, we estimated the effects of class closures …

Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable … characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are …

we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … and students' characteristics. University students are also poor at estimating their own test-performance and over …-estimate their predicted test score. However, females, white and working class students have less inflated view of themselves. Self …

students at Bocconi University and exploiting the organization of teaching at this institution, we are able to identify the … make the same choice. We estimate that, when it diverts students from majors in which they seem to have a relative ability …

assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential …

seems to have a stronger effect on students at the bottom of the grade distribution, especially at Age 16 …

educational outcomes of low-income students and has negative effects on high-income students. We further document a range of …