grants to university students while staying enrolled at their home university. This paper brings novel evidence on the effect … be stronger for students who visit foreign universities of relatively lower quality compared with their home university … of participating in the programme on students' academic outcomes, using rich administrative data from one of the largest …

end, I build a model where high school students decide their level of effort and whether to take the college admissions … test, taking into consideration how those decisions may affect their future university admission chances. Using Chilean … for each university; (b) increasing the high school GPA weight. The results from these exercises support the claim that …

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

, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …

, many students fail to complete their degrees, and few invest in majors with the highest earnings potential such as those in … STEM fields. To help students navigate the complexities of college, policymakers are increasingly advocating for the use of … quality of advising impacts students' success. This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of college advisor …

In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly … single-sex versus mixed classrooms on students’ achievement. Despite the vast yet inconclusive literature on single …-majority countries where single-sex education is prevalent. Empirical findings show that when students’ characteristics and educational …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …

findings of the study showed that multiple measures assessments placed the majority of students higher in comparison with the … traditional placement exams. Student academic history in the courses that students were placed into shows no difference in course … success between students using multiple measures assessments and traditional placement exams …

admissions cutoffs. The Michigan State University Honors College considers for admission all students in the top 10% of the …Honors education refers to programs for high achieving students at U.S. post-secondary institutions. These programs … provide high achieving students benefits such as the ability to enroll in exclusive courses with small class sizes, to live in …