likely to study other Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities than students whose parents are university graduates. We also find … evidence that FiF students are less likely to graduate from elite universities and have a higher probability of dropping out …

findings of the study showed that multiple measures assessments placed the majority of students higher in comparison with the … traditional placement exams. Student academic history in the courses that students were placed into shows no difference in course … success between students using multiple measures assessments and traditional placement exams …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …

A model is presented where universities competitively supply education to mobile students. Students are subject to a …-related debt relief, however, the equilibrium quality of education is inefficiently low. This is because students reduce their …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …

are not equally distributed among graduates, since recent literature shows that disadvantaged students are less likely to … study abroad than better off students. This is explained by differing social capital of individuals from diverse socio … differences in mobility by socio-economic background can be explained by ability of students? Throughout, results for Erasmus …

While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …

This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance … in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain … professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of administrative data on more than 2, 900 students from the university of …

, weil mehr Studierende ihr Studium "endgültig nicht bestanden" haben und so ohne Abschluss exmatrikuliert wurden. Die …This article investigates the effects of large groups of first-year students on individual college performance. The … college. The results show that students in large cohorts of freshmen have a lower probability to complete their degree on …