We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

and randomly assigned teacher-student sample in China. We find that having a more experienced or female homeroom teacher … (HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …

universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …

schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate … enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past … teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting successful students may vary with the degree of selectivity of higher … education programmes. We find that teacher scores predict students' performance in higher education more accurately, and its …