traditional degree program has affected first-year students’ satisfaction. Three dimensions of student satisfaction are focused … indicator for students’ personal problems within the academic context. The selection into the type of program is taken into … point to minor differences between the programs. The outcomes are slightly more favorable for students in the new programs …

- such as the educational expansion, the increasing heterogeneity of students, a high unemployment rate and rising costs …

groups of students performed so differently by estimating educational production functions, using an extension study with … method. The analysis shows that German students have on average more favorable characteristics and experience slightly higher … returns to these characteristics in terms of test scores than immigrant students. The later enrolment of immigrant students …

A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are … disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The … model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in …