We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …

Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … of the importance of credit constraints within this population. I find that students who obtain high school grades just … a four-year college and much less likely to attend a community college than students with grades just below the …

, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the US. Based on the estimated parameters, we derive time-varying elasticities of wages …

the estimated parameter elasticities of wages with respect to labour productivity, value added and consumer prices, taxes … prices in the formation of wages in the seventies and eighties was taken over by labour productivity in the US and …