lack of internet access at home among university students. As the estimates suggest, that is too small a problem to justify …

performance of three ethnic minority groups in their first year of study at a New Zealand university. Substantial differences in … characteristics, high school backgrounds and university enrollment patterns might account for these ethnic disparities in early … unexplained ethnic differences in early academic performance at university raise concerns about appropriate policies to close …

In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly …

significantly reduced university attendance by women relative to men. Additionally, we find that the policy had a negative impact on …

universities than high SES or White students. We use student-level university application data from the UK centralised university …

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the … Economics Departure of the University of Munich in December 2012. The thesis consists of four core chapters, each evaluating the … effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …

experiment in which peer advisors (PAs) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that 1) male …