university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …

study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based … on variation in the local field of study availability, we provide evidence that students who are not enrolled in their … impact on dropout is particularly strong among students of low socio-economic status and is driven by lower academic …

, obtained by providing students with information on the true population distribution of various major-specific characteristics …. Students logically revise their beliefs in response to the information, and their subjective beliefs about future major choice …

disposable income per capita and other variables that capture a student’s opportunity cost. Our model has a number of novel … speaking, male applicants tend to be more price sensitive than females and tend to exhibit stronger income effects. Students … applying from high school do not object to paying for a quality education, whereas ‘other’ students tend to be more …

students’ academic outcomes are context-dependent …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …

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 …

, on higher education students' choice of profession and on their academic performance. We statistically analyzed a sample …-intuition dichotomies (the latter was significant only for female students). We also found differences in the explanatory power of …