cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 - from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …

This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find … material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were …

students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social … programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training … likely to donate than other students and that there is an indoctrination effect for non-majors but not for majors. Women …

students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization … those students who did a technical track at high school tend to do better in mathematics than those who followed a social … formalism and more economic content. Moreover, students from public schools are predominant in the lower (with social sciences …

review the existing evidence and compile a longitudinal dataset covering inflows of international students into a number of … advanced economies. We then study the effects of various higher education policies on the inflow of international students … important tool to attract international students, and thus high-skilled migrants. …

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who …