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 … and final year graduation rates, with the impact often stronger for higher ability students. We find similar patterns of …

academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it … generates a strong and significant improvement in academic performance, particularly for students who struggled at the baseline … in terms of lifestyle habits. We also provide evidence on the underlying mechanisms: Students who were incentivized to …

Grades are used to evaluate students as well as to compare their scholastic achievements. They are used by graduate … schools as well as business firms to discriminate between students. But when grades are inflated, they cease to be an …

, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS …

As a contribution to the recent debate about graduate education in Economics, we have surveyed all students enrolled in … program which in the early 1990's adopted a US-style structure. Our results show that students enter with a relatively broad … because students enter with no interest. Our results are remarkably similar to those found by Colander and Klamer (1987) in …

survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields …

students have a significant impact on high school closure decisions. …