This article provides a comprehensive review of the socio-economic literature on the student
determinants of tertiary education dropout, in order to help research scholars better …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics
research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising …

This paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and
on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a political …

In this paper, we demonstrate that, in a context where peer groups do not overlap fully, it is
possible to identify all the relevant parameters of the standard linear-in-means model of …

This paper reports on an experimental evaluation of strategies designed to improve
academic performance among college freshmen. One treatment group was offered …

Programs linking college aid to academic achievement could work either by lowering the
cost of college or by inducing additional student effort. I examine the PROMISE program in …

Time to completion of the baccalaureate degree has increased markedly in the United
States over the past three decades. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the …

The Israeli matriculation certificate is a prerequisite for most postsecondary schooling. In a
randomized trial, we attempted to increase certification rates among low-achievers with cash …

We document whether and how publicizing a public procurement auction causally affects
entry and the costs of procurement. We run a regression discontinuity design analysis on a …

This paper reports on a randomized field experiment in which first-year university students
could earn financial rewards for passing all first-year requirements within one year. Financial …