the distribution of earnings. We proxy college quality using the college sector from which students graduate and focus on …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

-ability college students. The Longhorn Opportunity Scholars (LOS) and Century Scholars (CS) programs recruited at specified low-income … combined with adequate supports and financial aid can substantially increase enrollment of low-income students in higher …We study two interventions in Texas that were designed to overcome multiple hurdles faced by low-income, high …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …

teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

coverage for low-income children increases the rate of high school completion and college completion. These estimates are … children in the 1980s and 1990s on their future educational attainment. Our findings indicate that expanding health insurance … robust to only using federal Medicaid expansions, and mostly are due to expansions that occur when the children are older (i …