This paper studies the impact of the first Italian Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR 2001-2003) on university … undergraduate students' enrolment choices. A before-after estimator with differential treatment intensities is used to investigate … student enrolments and enrolment of students with better entry qualifications after the VTR. Our analysis demonstrates that …

. This paper explores the use of blogs in the teaching and assessment of a small (40-60 students) introductory economics … collected across four semesters, students’ participation in the blog assessment is found to be associated with student ability …, gender, and whether they are distance learners. Importantly, students with past economics experience do not appear to crowd …

providing MOOC on France Université Numérique (FUN), a MOOC platform. We find that new students intake of universities offering … students enrolled in online and traditional programs as well to media coverage, we see two intertwined explanations for this … positive relationship. One relates to the enhanced information available to students when making their enrollment decision; the …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

Motivated by the self-determination theory of psychology, we ask how simple school practices can forge students … crossover design, involving all the students of the University of Szeged in Hungary. Our intervention consisted of an automated … encouragement message that praised students’ past achievements and signaled trust in their success. The treated students received …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …

and Economics students from one of the leading private universities in Bangladesh for pre-pandemic and pandemic periods … of online collaboration among students, more lenient grading by the instructors due to the pandemic situation or because …