We document gender differences in reactions to failure in the National College Entrance Exam, an extremely high-stakes exam that solely determines college admission outcomes for almost all teenagers in China. Using unique administrative data in Ningxia Province and a regression-discontinuity...

This paper studies the effects of changing from Pre-exam to Post-exam rank order lists submission on matching outcomes in Turkish college admissions. A conceptual framework illustrates that such reform in the constrained Deferred Acceptance mechanism improves matching stability in two ways: (i)...

This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of gender congruence in the student-adviser relationship on three key student outcomes: (i) retention; (ii) grades; and (iii) post-graduation career outcomes. In so doing, we use unique administrative data from a selective liberal arts...