World War 1 exacerbated the cost of the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in two ways. First, it facilitated the spread the … that would have reduced mortality (as during the Covid-19 epidemic). While there is no obvious way of estimating any …

support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …

Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …

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 … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

The number of overseas students in China has increased substantially over the last two decades, as has the number of … Confucius Institutes (CIs) abroad. Using both official and self-compiled data on CIs abroad, and overseas students in China, by … country of origin, we investigate empirically whether Chinese language learning opportunities abroad have exerted a positive …