students to generally exhibit stronger "sensitivity" to grades. We examine student persistence in a wide spectrum of academic … make students more responsive to grades received in it, rather than the other way around as is commonly suggested. …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students ….e. very high or low levels of average peer ability in a group harm students' grades. These effects are most pronounced for low …-ability students. …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …

-year students‘ migratory behavior as indicated by a signicant drop in the gross in-migration rates in fee-charging states. Further …, our results point at a stronger migration response of male students, which, however, can mainly be attributed to a “border … effect”. That is, interregional migration flows of male students are redirected from fee-charging universities to those …

students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 to identify siblings. We follow the academic career of these …

labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students’ levels of overconfidence, and preferences for …