More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …

individual student. We show that in a heterogeneous population of students and a heterogeneous set of colleges, there is no … unique pattern or factor for all students to thrive in the same college. We define and quantify the concepts of …