This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance …

Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring …

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education …. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …

secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign …

period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign …