Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we … investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with … the market price of the object under consideration. Our estimation results suggest that economics students have both, a …

and earnings for the students who are induced to choose Math after being exposed to the pilot scheme. The effect partly … stems from the fact that these students end up with higher education. …

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 …

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

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

students in Chile. To address this gap, an anonymous survey was administered to students enrolled in General Education courses … at a major public university in Santiago (n=455 female students). Rape, attempted rape, and other types of sexual … factors for sexual violence in Chilean college students, and to begin to develop and evaluate theory-based programs to prevent …

In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi … and the oldest students within each cohort. Our data allow to control for potential selection issues as well as for … school children, we document that in university the youngest students perform better compared to their oldest peers …

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 …