We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

students. Our identification strategy is based on the University's first-year faculty adviser assignment policy which produces …. Finally, student-adviser gender congruence is found to work differently for students with different backgrounds and interests … weak students and students without STEM-orientation. …

This paper exploits student-level administrative data on the population of Italian university students from 2006 to … across cohorts, within the same university and the same degree program. The impact of HP students, proxied by their high …, especially for female students in competitive environments, such as the STEM fields, and for low ability students of both genders. …

single-sex versus mixed classrooms on students’ achievement. Despite the vast yet inconclusive literature on single …-majority countries where single-sex education is prevalent. Empirical findings show that when students’ characteristics and educational …-medium-ability male students performing significantly better in all-male classrooms. …