college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear rational and … informed. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing overall enrolment … institutions that they could have attended even with a lower score. This suggests that students with low-educated parents face …

assignment of undergraduates to peer groups during a mandatory orientation week and follow the students until graduation. High … levels of peer ability in a group harm the students' test scores and lead to increases in the probability of early dropout …; this result is driven by the adverse effect of high-ability peers on low-ability students. I find suggestive evidence for …

nearly doubled from 2012 to 2019 when almost 40 percent took at least one class online. Female students and older students … the terms when students take at least one class online. However, we do not find evidence that online course taking results … in increased degree completion. While online course offerings offer students flexibility, those who take online courses …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … students in countries with high - quality education. This phenomenon, as the usual brain drain, has two opposite effects on …

students are doing better in math and science and are more likely to choose those subjects if they are in single-sex classes … coedu-cational classes on the choice of school type for female students. We propose that girls are less likely to choose a … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using nat-ural variation in gender composition of adjacent …