Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …

particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to … three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room … with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear …

resources significantly increased educational attainment and wages later in life, particularly for the children of unskilled …

. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in …This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …

dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …

students, we demonstrate the power of behavioral economics to influence educational performance. Several insights emerge. First … that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were … less effective with older students. Third, and perhaps most importantly, consistent with hyperbolic discounting, all …