We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application … strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their … Hungarian secondary school students, three aspects of application decisions are investigated: the number of applications; the …

personal qualities possessed by the participants and their acquired skills. The participants are the students who are enrolled …