enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

in Ningxia Province and a regression-discontinuity design, we find that students who score just below the tier-2 …

conducted a survey among first-year students of Microeconomics at the University of Cologne. In contrast to other studies, we … the restrictions, this does not apply to students with a low socioeconomic background. Trying to identify more specific …

This paper studies whether universities should select their students only using specialised subject-specific tests or … students' large administrative dataset. My central finding is that, on average, universities with less specialised admission … policies admit a pool of students who obtain a higher final GPA. …

foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …

analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic … performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to their higher-income peers. We find a differential effect by students' pre …-COVID-19 academic performance. Top-performing lower-income students experienced a decrease in both grades (5% lower) and earned …

end, I build a model where high school students decide their level of effort and whether to take the college admissions … increasing the level of equal college opportunities may boost the amount of effort exerted by high school students. Specifically … groups. (3) The highest reactions in terms of exerted effort come from those students who also change their decision about …

due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …