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November 13, 2024

Fewer exam retakes, better results?

Policy change at the University of Bologna improved academic performance and reduced dropout rates

  • exams
  • Italy
  • retakes
  • student outcomes
  • university
  • Enkelejda Havari
  • Massimiliano Bratti
  • Silvia Granato
Research

May 11, 2021

Higher minimum wage lowers enrollment in academic programs at universities

Study from Canada investigates the impact of the minimum wage on individuals' schooling decisions

  • college
  • education
  • minimum wage
  • university
  • Diana Alessandrini
  • Joniada Milla
Research

March 16, 2020

Do women shy away from public speaking?

Field experiment shows female students are less willing to present to a larger audience

  • anxiety
  • career
  • gender gap
  • public speaking
  • university
  • Maria De Paola
  • Rosetta Lombardo
  • Valeria Pupo
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

October 10, 2019

Legacy and athlete preferences at Harvard

Admissions advantages of privileged applicants have gone up over time

  • education
  • elite
  • inequality
  • privilege
  • students
  • university
  • Josh Kinsler
  • Peter Arcidiacono
  • Tyler Ransom
Research

March 28, 2019

Peer diversity and college performance

Linguistic diversity does not harm native students but enhances non-native speaking students' performance

  • academic performance
  • college
  • diversity
  • globalization
  • higher education
  • language
  • university
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Elena Lisauskaite
  • Ingo E. Isphording
Research

December 14, 2018

Are professors good teachers?

Lower-ranked instructors are just as good when it comes to tutorial teaching

  • education
  • professors
  • teaching
  • university
  • Jan Feld
  • Nicolas Salamanca
  • Ulf Zölitz
Research

December 10, 2018

Steering more students into STEM?

Costs of delivering postsecondary instruction differ markedly by field of study

  • disciplines
  • education
  • engineering
  • faculty
  • math
  • STEM
  • students
  • tuition
  • university
  • Andew Simon
  • Fernando Furquim
  • John E. Sawyer
  • Kevin Stange
  • Steven W. Hemelt
Research

February 16, 2018

Searching on campus: Marriage market effects of the student gender composition

The growing success of online dating platforms seems to indicate that finding your partner in the “real” world becomes harder. […]

  • education
  • female
  • gender
  • inequality
  • male
  • marriage
  • university
  • Nico Pestel
Research

November 21, 2016

Money to study? Research on motivation and incentives for students

Differences in educational outcomes based on socioeconomic background is a well-documented phenomenon and a key driver of inequalities later in […]

  • education
  • education policy
  • goal-setting approaches
  • goals
  • highschool
  • incentives
  • motivation
  • student performance
  • university
  • Damon Clark
  • David Gill
  • Mark Rush
  • Robert Metcalfe
  • Sally Sadoff
  • Simon Burgess
  • Victoria L. Prowse
Research

June 17, 2015

How to increase the attractiveness of STEM for female students

Women have been traditionally under-represented in college major fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Analyzing the reasons is […]

  • career
  • college major
  • gender differences
  • grading
  • scholarships
  • STEM
  • university
  • workload
  • Peter Arcidiacono
Research

May 20, 2015

Should colleges share the burden of student loan debt?

Tertiary education is a costly thing. How to design its financing is a major topic in public policy. Around the […]

  • college
  • debt
  • financing
  • higher education
  • student loans
  • tuition
  • university
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Douglas A. Webber
  • Giorgio Di Pietro
  • John V. Winters
  • Peter J. Sloane
Research

November 11, 2014

Online quizzes can motivate students to learn more

A large fraction of students fail at university. One potential reason is that students do not exercise enough effort on […]

  • achievement
  • effort
  • exams
  • grades
  • incentive
  • motivation
  • participation
  • quiz
  • student
  • university
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Melanie Lührmann
  • Peter Dolton
Research

November 5, 2014

Online quizzes can motivate students to learn more

A large fraction of students fail at university. One potential reason is that students do not exercise enough effort on […]

  • achievement
  • effort
  • exams
  • grades
  • incentive
  • motivation
  • participation
  • quiz
  • student
  • university
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Melanie Lührmann
  • Peter Dolton
Research

June 13, 2014

Student internships increase wages later in life

Most university students complete an internship while pursuing an academic degree: some work during the semester breaks, others even take […]

  • earnings
  • experience
  • internship
  • labor market entry
  • student
  • university
  • Nils Saniter
  • Thomas Siedler
Research

April 22, 2014

A stitch in time saves nine: procrastination and academic success

Every student knows how hard it can be to pull yourself together and study. From a short-run perspective, being lazy […]

  • academic performance
  • Italy
  • procrastination
  • student
  • student performance
  • training programs
  • university
  • Maria De Paola
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

December 20, 2013

Women are not scared of competing with males, field experiment shows

Despite increasing female labor market participation, gender differences in labor market outcomes persist: men earn more, have better employment perspectives […]

  • competition
  • employment
  • exam
  • field experiment
  • gender differences
  • student
  • university
  • women
  • Francesca Gioia
  • Maria De Paola
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

November 8, 2013

Study abroad programs boost labor market careers

Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes like the European Erasmus scholarship program, relatively little research has been […]

  • education
  • educational mobility
  • employment
  • Italy
  • job prospects
  • university
  • Giorgio Di Pietro
Research

October 28, 2013

High school counselors effectively help students choose the right college major

Choosing the right field of study at college is a very important, but also a very difficult decision. Many prospective […]

  • employment prospects
  • field of study
  • high school
  • higher education
  • study counselor
  • tertiary education
  • university
  • Anders Stenberg
  • Bart H.H. Golsteyn
  • Lex Borghans
Research

June 24, 2013

Do people discriminate others or favor their ownkind?

Discrimination is omnipresent in today’s labor markets: women receive lower wages, foreigner are less likely to be hired. While the […]

  • class room
  • discrimination
  • favoritism
  • field experiment
  • grading
  • labor market
  • Maastricht University
  • Netherlands
  • university
  • Daniel S. Hamermesh
  • Jan Feld
  • Nicolas Salamanca
Videos

March 13, 2013

Don J. DeVoretz on the economics of citizenship

In the latest IZA interview Don J. DeVoretz, IZA Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the Simon Fraser University […]

  • citizenship
  • education
  • Europe
  • interview
  • labor demand
  • migration
  • university
  • Don J. DeVoretz

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