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 …

Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over-education …. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly using a rich Australian longitudinal data set. A dynamic random effects … probit model is employed to examine upward occupational mobility, considering two-digit occupational rank advancement and …

This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of … opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university level. The reform that we consider obligated all minority students …, including those studying in public schools with a full cycle of education in minority languages, to take a standardized school …

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 …

received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a quot …Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … effect on enrolment rates into higher education. We find that the reform had a small positive but statistically insignificant …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services … offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment …

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 …