Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …

years of schooling completed, earnings, family income, composition of friends, and probability of voting. Our results … provide evidence of a positive link between attending a college with greater diversity and higher earnings and family income …

The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed … connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

mother on college attendance in the years immediately following high school fade out as students reach their later 20s and …

of siblings in the determination of children's human capital as well as the potential for typically uncounted benefits to … improving children's health through family multiplier effects …

student's cohort or grade. We find that increases in number of friendship links with students whose mothers are college … relatively broad based across students over maternal education, racial and ethnic composition and across schools that vary in …