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 …

A considerable fraction of college students and bachelor's degree recipients enroll in multiple postsecondary … institutions - that students take to obtain a bachelor's degree or through the higher education system more generally. We also know … panel data set from Texas that allows us to both examine in detail the paths that students take towards a bachelor's degree …

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 …

-based admissions practices and the effect such preferences have on the quality of schools in which minority students enroll, graduation … argue these bans are very informative about how affirmative action affects URM students. Finally, we discuss the evidence on …

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 …

coverage for low-income children increases the rate of high school completion and college completion. These estimates are … children in the 1980s and 1990s on their future educational attainment. Our findings indicate that expanding health insurance … robust to only using federal Medicaid expansions, and mostly are due to expansions that occur when the children are older (i …

-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 …

and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students … four-year students, and we analyze individuals into their mid-30s. For four-year students, we find that state appropriation … adverse debt outcomes, and these students experience substantial increases in their credit score and in the affluence of the …

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 …