This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …

? ii) To what extent do schools contribute to their students' academic success? To answer these questions, we model … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We …, controlling for mean reversion bias, we look at each school's value-added.We find that students infer the quality of a school from …

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 …

in China has approximately quadrupled in the last 6 years. The size of entering classes of new students and total student …This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the …

country using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) in China. The NCEE is one of the most important … institutions in China and affects hundreds of millions of families. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in temperature … earnings of students …

-stakes college entrance exam in China. To overcome selection bias, we use a regression discontinuity design that compares applicants …

of a market model. We examine trends in the mix of students enrolled in charter schools, the racial imbalance of charter … public schools serving similar students over time. Taken together, our findings imply that the charter schools in North … Carolina are increasingly serving the interests of relatively able white students in racially imbalanced schools …

primary and middle school students' test scores in math, Hebrew, and English. One standard deviation improvement in … doesn't vary with students' socio-economic background, is highly non-linear, increases sharply for superintendents in the …