-economic background of the students? Results are compared between Italy and the UK using Italian Institute of National Statistics and UK … selection bias: the different composition of students opting and not opting for studying abroad. The purpose of this paper is to … undergraduates (UK and Italy) and postgraduates (Italy only). Results confirm that mobility is positively associated with the outcome …

selection bias: the different composition of students opting and not opting for studying abroad. The purpose of this paper is to … market and education systems? Third, do the returns to ISM differ according to the socio-economic background of the students …? Results are compared between Italy and the UK using Italian Institute of National Statistics and UK Higher Education …

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …

We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …

features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … end of high school. Lucky students take exams in subjects they are better at, and we show that this generates significant …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

7% more per year, on average, than state school students some 3.5 years after graduation, even when comparing otherwise …

great pay-off to the beneficiary. According to the results of some recent surveys on this topic, students in general seem to …