policy fails to incentivize students from a disadvantaged socioeconomic background it may lead to a deterioration in the …

to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion … treatment is based on SES rather than ethnicity. Evaluating the effectiveness of programs targeting disadvantaged students in … and final year graduation rates, with the impact often stronger for higher ability students. We find similar patterns of …

In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than … preferences for programs and schools on the allocation of students to colleges. Controlling for test score and high school …