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 …

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 …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when …

, we show that this law change had a large negative impact on the college attendance of students with drug convictions. On … enrollment by about two years, and we also present suggestive evidence that affected students were less likely to ever enroll in … college. Students living in urban areas and those whose mothers did not attend college appear to be the most affected by these …

Since the spring of 2021, nearly 700 colleges and universities in the U.S. have mandated that their students become …