differences in mobility by socio-economic background can be explained by ability of students? Throughout, results for Erasmus … mobility will be compared with those of other mobility schemes organised by higher education institutes. The study exploits … aiming to increase mobility uptake of disadvantaged students could allocate resources for mobility more equally across …

explaining graduate mobility, we find that top performing students return less often than do low performers. As a consequence the …We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because … not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all …

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 …

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 …

different groups of teachers and are found mainly for mobility between schools rather than out of the profession. Teachers react …

how women's mobility and education decisions interact. I first document women's low regional mobility in post-war West … education that has been documented for developed countries in the latter half of the 20th century. It uses the foundation of new …-by university opening, closing the local gender gap in university education by about 72%. Third, I provide evidence that local …