and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students receive after application as a …. There is significant selection of students into different types of student employment. …

This paper contributes to the economics of examination rules. We show how rational students reallocate their learning …

Half of all college students take at least one remedial course as part of their postsecondary experience, despite mixed … students' skills. But we also find relatively little evidence that it discourages either initial enrollment or persistence … appears to be diversionary: students simply take remedial courses instead of college-level courses. These diversionary effects …

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 …

In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them …. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and novel administrative data, we find that low-achieving students who retake …