With only a small number of their students coming from families with the lowest incomes (10% from the bottom two family … answers are (1) that low-income high-ability students are being excluded in order to favor the children of society's most … advantaged or (2) that very few low-income high-ability students exist - that by college age, low-income students have been so …

subsidies. This approach expands on the tuition subsidy example in Ichimura and Taber (2000) in a number of dimensions. It has … explicitly specify a structural model and use the implied reduced form structure to estimate the effect of tuition subsidy … in reduced form estimation. Using hte specified structural model, we examine the assumptions discussed in Ichimura and …

tuition increases enrollment rates, it reduces student effort. This follows from the fact that a high-subsidy, low …

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance …

In the Austrian (as well as the German) education system students have to choose between different school tracks at the … in grades 5-8. Since after grade 8, students again have to make a track choice, we use additional data from PISA 2003 and … that leads to an efficient allocation of students to tracks. …

the effect by comparing a student's academic performance before and after turning 21. We find that students' grades fall … evolution of performance as students make progress towards their degrees. …

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …