government and reached 30% of student loan applicants. We show that the low-income and low-achieving students who apply to low … correctly centered. Treatment causes low-income students to reduce their demand for low-return degrees by 4.6%, and increases …-earning college degree programs overestimate earnings for past graduates by over 100%, while beliefs for high-achieving students are …

aggregate costs of providing mandated programs for disabled children. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of … average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …

determined bequests from parents that can be used to finance schooling, uncertainty in college completion related to differences … structure, we analyze tuition subsidies such as exist in most public colleges, alternative forms of need-based aid, income … more intergenerational mobility and greater income equality. But, the various policies have quite different implications …

We use large-scale surveys of Chilean college applicants and college students to explore the way students form beliefs … to observed values for past students and follow survey participants forward to see how beliefs relate to matriculation … and dropout outcomes. We find that students have correctly centered but noisy cost expectations, and appear to …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …

Using data on student outcomes and school choice lotteries from a low-income urban school district, we examine how …. The effects are largest for male students entering high school, whose truancy rates decline by 21% in the months after …