A significant gap remains between rural and urban students in the rate of admission to senior high school. One reason … students in China. We surveyed three counties in Shaanxi Province and exploit the fact that, while the counties are adjacent to … statistically significant and positive impact on the math scores of seventh grade students. More importantly, this program is shown …

The paper examines whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students' subsequent … achievement in education and the take-up by schools of financial support from the government for students. We build a theoretical … model to describe the channels through which students' belief of their ability, as proxied by previous performance in tests …

students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range of support, and assigned students … students of low and medium ability gain on average 0.2 SD units of achievement from switching from ability mixing to three …-way tracking. Their dropout rate is reduced by 15 percentage points (relative to a mean of 0.6). High-ability students are …

exploited the natural experiment established by the introduction of fees. They did not affect students' spending behavior … studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the effects on students' budgets. To identify causal effects, we … students increased their budgets only marginally; fees did not increase social inequality. …

field experiment, I expose more than 5,000 German students either to general information on federally funded scholarships or …If information asymmetries prevent talented students of non-academic backgrounds from applying for merit-based aid, the … whether information asymmetries exist and decrease students’ likelihood to apply for merit-based scholarships. In a randomized …

I use the introduction of tuition fees in seven out of the sixteen German states in 2007 as a natural experiment to …

abolished recently. Whereas other studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the effects on students’ budgets. To … identify causal effects, we exploited the natural experiment established by the introduction of fees. Tuition fees decrease … total expenditure moderately by about 4 %. With regard to financial resources, students are more likely to receive support …