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 …

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 …

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 …

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a quot …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …

university. We focus on two core variables: the share of non-English-speaking students and the diversity within the group of non …-English-speaking students with respect to their linguistic background. English-speaking students are largely unaffected by the ethno …-linguistic classroom composition.Non-English-speaking students benefit from a larger diversity in their performance and increase their …