the effects of increased access to student loans on credit-constrained students' educational attainment, earnings, debt …

We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college …-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies … markedly different voting rates. Next, after controlling for students' college application portfolios and pre-college voting …

portfolio and compare students with similar portfolios and levels of interest in HBCUs and non-HBCUs who ultimately make … students initially enrolling in HBCUs are 14.6 percentage points more likely to earn a BA degree and have 5 percent higher … household income around age 30 than those who do not enroll in an HBCU. Initially enrolling in an HBCU also leads to $12 …

investments that we document leads to the question of how students from different backgrounds sort into these different … institutions and programs. We discuss the emerging research showing that lower-SES students, especially in the U.S., are more … policies designed to support success among students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Chapter concludes with some broad …

from Texas public colleges and a discontinuity in grant generosity for low-income students. Within four-year institutions …We estimate effects of the Pell Grant - the largest U.S. federal grant for college students - using administrative data …, eligibility for additional grant aid significantly increases first-time students' degree completion and later earnings. Our …

Millions of high school students who take an Advanced Placement (AP) course in one of over 30 subjects can earn college … that 15 percent of students' AP courses do not result in an AP exam. We predict that up to 32 percent of the AP courses … district exam subsidies on AP exam-taking rates. In fact, students on free and reduced-price lunch (FRL) in the districts that …

can be driven either by marginal students induced to enroll by financial aid, or by inframarginal students who would have … students rather than the combined effect on marginal and inframarginal students by examining a change in financial aid that did … to financially independent students. I find that financial aid received by needier students is more likely to positively …

engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i … relationship between studying STEM and voting. To do so, we create a dataset of over 23 million students in the U.S. matched to … school and college students to voting outcomes. It also contains a rich set of demographic and academic variables, to account …

's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students …