This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …

. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

new groups of students arriving on campus encountered a social system centered on exclusive old boys' clubs. We combine … archival and Census records of students' college lives and long-run careers with a room-randomization design based on a scaled … residential integration policy. We first show that high-status students from prestigious private high schools perform worse …

After three decades of decline, the amount of time spent by parents on childcare in the U.S. began to rise dramatically … in the mid-1990s. Moreover, the rise in childcare time was particularly pronounced among college-educated parents. Why … would highly educated parents increase the amount of time they allocate to childcare at the same time that their own market …

research university. Inter alia, the data include information on the ages of the alumni's children, whether they applied for … that donations will increase the likelihood of admission for their children and if this belief helps motivate their giving …, then the pattern of giving should vary systematically with the ages of their children, whether the children ultimately …

students. We find that at the college level, differences in type of institution attended have highly significant effects on … differences in lifetime earning patterns of students …

We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …