This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … students learn relatively more from non-tenure line professors in their introductory courses. These differences are present … across a wide variety of subject areas, and are particularly pronounced for Northwestern's average students and less …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes initiated by instructors. These gender differences cannot be … explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. To understand the mechanisms underlying …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

Twenty-five cohorts of medical students were asked in their first and fourth year of school to estimate contemporaneous … physician income in six different specialties. The students' income estimation errors varied systematically over time and cross … absolute value of the estimation errors was 26 percent of actual income. Students were 35 percent more accurate when estimating …

variation from a Colombian financial aid reform boosting the share of low-income students at an elite university. Combining … college records and original survey data, I study how diversity affects high-income students' social networks, perceptions … low-income peers caused high-income students to diversify their social networks, have more accurate perceptions of the …

promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …

in religiosity of students majoring in the social sciences and humanities, but a rise in religiosity for those in …