weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for … readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 …

which their students defaulted. I examine the predicted institutional responses under a variety of possible penalties and … economic efficiency in terms of costs due to a reallocation of students across sectors …

Analyzing how working students weather personal economic shocks is increasingly important as the fraction of college … students working substantial hours has increased dramatically over the past few decades. Using administrative data on Ohio … college students linked to matched firm-worker data on earnings, we examine how layoff affects the educational outcomes of …