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 …

about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … similar increase in wages. Clearly, there was a sizeable gain from being born late enough to take advantage of the greater …

Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British …

/SES gradient can be explained by differential performance at second level which also explains the gap between the sexes. Students …

association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved … factors that influence both wages and education (e.g. ability). In this paper, I use the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine …

educational achievement for a representative sample of Irish 9 year olds. Students are partitioned into four groups according to …

for low and high ability students and that important insights are lost by focusing on the conditional mean. The … factors may affect where students go and what they study. …