enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student … analyses separately for affirmative action students and regular students. The main results suggest that affirmative action …

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

into university in order to enrich and enhance the planning of the needed university places for first-year students. The … estimate an alternative number of first-year students and to open up a range of possible solutions. …

estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …

significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …

results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …

lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We … findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose challenging academic track highschools compared with their Italian … counterparts, after controlling for householdcharacteristics, school fixed effects, and students' performance. We show …

-secondary degree attainment gaps between four student populations which together comprise 94 percent of public school students in … concentrated in the lowest quintile. College enrollment is higher for minority students of both genders in the average and lower AI …