workforce in the current world of work, little is known about the contribution they make to students' outcomes, above and beyond …

Policy makers are increasingly searching for ways to allow more disadvantaged students to access and complete higher … opportunity to identify the causal effects of these interventions on disadvantaged students and discuss inequality mechanisms at … effects of outreach and financial aid interventions on the access and completion rates of disadvantaged students in higher …

their peers' ability to perform at the next level. Alternatively, promoting students into grades for which they are not … prepared may lead to early dropout behavior. This study shows that in a sample of schools from the Northwest Frontier Province … of Pakistan, students are promoted primarily on the basis of merit. An econometric decomposition of promotion decisions …

This paper constructs two longitudinal datasets that record students' test scores in a national standardized exam in … Mexico and track students from the end of primary (Grade 6) to the end of lower (Grade 9) and upper (Grade 12) secondary … school, then to university and labor market participation up to two years after graduation from upper secondary. The results …