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Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila; Lerche, Katharina; Meya, Johannes; Schwager, Robert – Education Economics, 2017
This paper studies the determinants of academic success using a unique administrative data set of a German university. We show that high school grades are strongly associated with both graduation probabilities and final grades, whereas variables measuring social origin or income have only a smaller impact. Moreover, the link between high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement