This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique … administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary education system. The study decomposes wage … migrants. Ethnic minority students appear to have large wage surplus which is almost entirely explained from their favourable …

We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and … behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school students in England. Our research design is based on … changes in neighbourhood composition caused explicitly by residential migration amongst students in our dataset. The …

We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent … research into the important issue of how recent parental-divorce affects students at university. This paper designs such a … study. In it, to avoid 'priming', we measure students' happiness with life before we inquire into their family background …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

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 …

Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We exploit the British government's formal … new survey of graduating international students, we find that EU graduating students are significantly more likely than … non-EU graduating students to plan on leaving the UK upon graduation immediately after the announcement …

Do applicants to higher education rely on expert judgement about the quality of the course when applying? Using … application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …

Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets … we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing … abilities are more likely to expect to continue to higher education even after controlling for observable measures of ability …