We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student … analyses separately for affirmative action students and regular students. The main results suggest that affirmative action …

We use rich microeconomic data on performance and choices of students at college entry to study the interaction between … which preferences and expectations of students are identified from data on choices and multiple exam grades. Counterfactuals … timing of choices and exams are shown to increase welfare. Redistribution among students or schools is sizeable in all …

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 …

engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i … relationship between studying STEM and voting. To do so, we create a dataset of over 23 million students in the U.S. matched to … school and college students to voting outcomes. It also contains a rich set of demographic and academic variables, to account …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to … such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who … several subjects. In the medium run, college enrollment increases by 8 percentage points for these students. This is due to …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …