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 …

colleges, which serve higher percentages of lower-income and minority students, have implications for policy, impending … enrollment patterns and the academic outcomes of community college students using administrative college-level panel data … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college …

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 …

depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address … potential biases from sorting by focusing on students with restricted course enrollment options due to low registration … priorities, students not getting first section choices, and on courses with no within-term or within-year racial variation in …

instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … sciences and STEM - introductory chemistry labs - at a large public university. The uncommon assignment method of students to … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …

School Class of 1972 to study how male college students' employment while in college influences their academic performance …

In 1965 Congress established the Social Security Student Benefit Program which provided benefits for children of … federal outlays on student assistance for higher education. The program was terminated for students newly entering college as …

collected from students who entered the treatment and 50 control departments during a 15 year period that spanned the start of …

greatest number of NMS students …

increase in the length of time necessary for doctorate students to complete their programs that occurred over the period and … are increasing support for graduate students. Surprisingly little empirical evidence is available on how different types … completion rates. Our paper uses data on all graduate students who entered Ph.D. programs in four fields during a 25-year period …