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

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 …

year before the referendum. This exercise reveals a decrease in exchange students studying in the UK of around 3.8% to 4 ….9%. While the number of non-EU students to the UK rises, a drop in EU student numbers drives this result. Similarly, 30% to 38 …% fewer UK students choose to study abroad. The estimated changes in international student stocks show that most other member …

lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …-in-discontinuity design, we show that the program raises students' first-year GPA by 14.6% of a standard deviation, and decreases the … probability of first-year dropout by 8.5 percentage points. Effects are concentrated among lower-income students who also …

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 … effect on the number of students who move to China for study. Using panel data for 182 countries over the period 2002 to 2014 …