grants to university students while staying enrolled at their home university. This paper brings novel evidence on the effect … of participating in the programme on students' academic outcomes, using rich administrative data from one of the largest … improves graduation results for undergraduate students in scientific and technical fields (STEM) and for those who apply for …

previously-estimated average effects to predict benefits. Moreover, it suggests that interventions that target all students would …

describe how they aimed to analyse whether attending private tutoring centres (PTCs) enhances Turkish students' academic … cumulative grade point average (CGPA), parental education and students' sociocultural background. While the authors point out … important factor for determining students' academic performance. …

Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the … country with a very rigorous tracking system where the risk of misallocating students to tracks is, due to the early age at …

We use a regression-discontinuity design to study the effects of double blocking sixth-grade students in reading and … cutoffs in the test scores used to assign students to double blocking. We find large, positive, and persistent effects of …