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 …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender differences cannot be explained by observable … characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. Surveys of students and instructors reveal that regrade requests are …

Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this … question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian … the best students in the university entrance exam to the group that starts in the first semester, and the other 50 per …

This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in …'s own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math test … scores and educational expectations, with a large and sustained impact in test scores among students outside the capital city …

education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work and later schooling and employment outcomes …. Using unique longitudinal Belgian data, we find that pupils who work during the summer holidays of secondary education are … education enrolment. …

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 … receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …

In 2012, the Brazilian government passed a law that mandated all federal higher education institutions to implement a … 50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the … academic performance of non-targeted students. Identification rests on the use of pre-law crosswise variation in specially …