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 …

charging students for the costs of their education. …

American undergraduate students. Our most important finding is that student service expenditures influence graduation and … persistence rates and their marginal effects are larger for students at institutions with lower entrance test scores and more … lower income students. Put another way, their effects are largest at institutions that have lower current persistence and …

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

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are …

students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …