sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in … finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We firstly show that procrastination is a strong predictor of students … background characteristics and indicators of students' motivation. Secondly, we investigate, using a Regression Discontinuity …

students with the same ability have a different rank in their respective cohort, the higher- ranked student is significantly …-ranked students under-invest in their human capital even if they have a high ability compared to most students of the same age …. Exploring potential channels, we find that students with a higher rank have higher expectations about their future career, a …

from a random sample of undergraduate students in the United States and implement a research design that instruments for … tuition with relatively large changes to the tuition of students who enrolled at the same school in different cohorts. We find … among poorer, credit-constrained students. Thus, the relatively large increases in the price of education in the United …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … explained by their impact on sorting and not because they allow programs to select more successful students from a given pool of …