Selective universities regularly employ policies that favor children of alumni (known as legacies') in undergraduate … policies that favor legacies have disproportionately benefited white students. For this reason, legacy policies lead to … additional costs in terms of reductions in racial diversity. As larger numbers of minority students graduate from colleges and …

-message coaching program - in a sample of over 3,000 undergraduate students at a large Canadian university. Supplementing … program effects on students' non-academic outcomes, despite estimating null effects on course grades and credit accumulation …

the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult … contrast, interventions that rely on technology to maintain low-touch contact with students can be implemented at large scale … students. We work with a sample of over four thousand undergraduate students from a large Canadian university, randomly …

widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

an attempt to determine who benefits from college. Despite the tremendous heterogeneity across potential college students …

High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks … apart. Half of the students taking the first survey were also shown a 3 minute video about the benefits of post secondary … education (PSE) and invited to try out a financial-aid calculator. Most students' perceived returns to PSE were high, even among …

institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students at public two …-year institutions in response to increases in the minimum wage. The largest enrollment effects are seen for those students who are … of students who are unlikely to have been diverted from degree attainment …

students at a large Canadian university were randomly assigned to complete one of two online goal-setting treatments or a …