with lower high school grades. The program affects the performance of both male and female students, albeit in different … 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 …

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behaviour between students from … on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … disadvantaged versus advantaged high schools. Ireland provides an interesting laboratory for this analysis as applicants provide a …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … first class honours or a 2.1 degree. However, once we control for post-primary school achievement, these students actually … requirements for students who come from school types that convey advantages in the post-primary exams that determine college entry. …