family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a particular college admission system on … family formation. We show that the admission system affects mainly the timing of college enrollment and not the college … the effect of being above the admission requirement in the year of application on later family formation decisions. We …

the effect by comparing a student's academic performance before and after turning 21. We find that students' grades fall … evolution of performance as students make progress towards their degrees …

foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …

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 …

volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students' efforts to raise lifetime income and universities' activities to improve teaching quality are …

restricted to students in initial education following university studies and preparing an Associate, a Bachelor or a Master …

that students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the transition year … achievement but do not alter students' performance trajectories …

This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable …

countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that …. Institutional arrangements often serve to mitigate the achievement gaps of some migrant students while leaving unaffected or … school sector appear detrimental. Migrant students' achievement relative to their native-born peers suffers as educational …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female …