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 …

federal student loans to students who have received information about financial aid but have not made a borrowing decision. A … treatment reminding students that they need not borrow the maximum amount of available loan aid does not affect borrowing …. Treatments referencing amounts borrowed by recent graduates shift students from borrowing the maximum amount to not borrowing …

loan default, income driven repayment (IDR) plans make higher-paying but riskier jobs more attractive to those with … protects borrowers from default by linking payments to income, offering only the IDR plan generates notable benefits. Removing … their expected net income. Moreover, these effects are strongest when borrowers holding different plans coexist in the …

aid could reduce student loan defaults without restricting prospective students' access to higher education. We examine …, market enrollment declines by just 3 percent. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to enroll in …

We examine the impact of a temporary price shock on the attainment of undocumented college students enrolled in a large … undocumented students. By fall 2002, the state legislature restored in-state rates. Using a differences … immediate 8 percent decrease in senior college students' enrollment. Senior college students who entered college the semester …

-on-one college coaching improves college attendance and completion outcomes for former low- and middle-income income state aid …,000 former students in their early- to mid-20s. Half of participants assigned to the treatment group were offered the opportunity …