transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …

COVID-19 outbreak and study whether the inequality of students caused by the pandemic will shrink (expand or disappear) with … academic achievement than ever before. When students returned campus, the gender inequality caused by the pandemic seemingly …

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past … teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting successful students may vary with the degree of selectivity of higher … education programmes. We find that teacher scores predict students' performance in higher education more accurately, and its …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first- time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

into university in order to enrich and enhance the planning of the needed university places for first-year students. The … estimate an alternative number of first-year students and to open up a range of possible solutions. …

Why is the proportion of women who study Economics so low? This study assesses whether students respond to messages … 2,000 students enrolled in Economics Principles courses, with interventions proceeding in two phases. In the first phase …, randomly assigned students received a message with basic information about the Economics major, or the basic message combined …

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 …