We study the UK's university application system, in which students apply based on predicted
examination grades, rather than actual results. Using three years of UK university …

Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a
monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is …

The Covid pandemic and the cancellation of state examinations caused unprecedented
turmoil in the education systems on both sides of the Irish Sea. As the policy of calculating …

We use a large and novel administrative dataset to investigate returns to different university
'degrees'(subject-institution combinations) in the United Kingdom. Conditioning on a rich set …

This paper provides the first experimental evidence of how admission outcomes in
centralized systems depend on strategic college choice behaviors. Centralized college …

Background Participation in higher education has significant and long-lasting consequences
for people's socioeconomic trajectories. Maternal depression is linked to poorer educational …

We examine how first-in-family (FiF) graduates—those whose parents do not have university
degrees—fare in the labor market in England. We find that among women, FiF graduates …

Students in the UK apply to university with teacher-predicted examination grades, rather
than actual results. These predictions have been shown to be inaccurate, and to favour …

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper
compares two measures of past cognitive skills: teacher and national exam scores. By using …

Despite increasing efforts to improve their access, students facing socio-economic
disadvantages are still underrepresented in UK higher education. In this paper, we study …