-section data on the region of origin of the highschool graduate and the university destination region for first-year students with … behaviour of prospective students is governed by a negative distancedeterrence effect and a downward rent effect, but a positive …

that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we … find evidence that men indeed score significantly higher on the test when graded on a curve. Female students, irrespective …

Malawi's tracking program raises school participation of top students without a reduction in pupil learning. These findings …

costs later on. We test for hoarding of university computers by students. Endogeneity of congestion is acknowledged by using …

too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission … age. We find that attending the higher track does not affect cognitive outcomes at any relative age. For older students … students compensate lower ability (given high track attendance) with higher effort. …