We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze … 2001-2012. We show that (i) there are overall little differences between the characteristics of university and corporate … startup entrepreneurs, (ii) common factors triggering startup activity of both university and corporate employees are …

near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship …Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … academy membership and number of faculty awards, measures of a university's research quality, are the most significant …

university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West … German control group received formal and informal education in a free-market economy, while East German students did or did …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …

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 investigate the long-run impact of college remedial education on students' academic performance and employment … the probability to get a university degree, whereas no significant effect is found on labour market outcomes …

and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students ….e. very high or low levels of average peer ability in a group harm students' grades. These effects are most pronounced for low …-ability students …

final majors undergraduates choose. We use unique administrative data from a large private university on the East Coast from … school student performance, gender of faculty, and economic returns of majors. Finally, we examine how students' decisions … signals) to impel female students to switch majors …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services … designed to increase take-up of university tutoring services. Brief, one-time messages increased tutoring take-up by 7 …