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 …

-effects controls, which is consistent with students choosing majors based on comparative advantage. We do not find statistically …

, 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 …

Using data from a group incentive program that provides cash bonuses to teachers whose students perform well on … of students within a grade, school and subject, providing substantial variation in group size. We use the share of … students in a grade-subject enrolled in a teacher's classes as a proxy for incentive strength since, as the teacher share …