-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of …

ability, household background variables (especially parents' education) account for 68% of the explained crosssectional … explained variation in wages is accounted for by parents' background variables as opposed to 73% by unobserved abilities …

-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of …

-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of …

students responded to the release of the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard in September 2015. We find that data … increase in score sends. The impact is driven almost entirely by well-resourced high schools and students. We find little … evidence that the count or composition of enrolled students changed as a result of the Scorecard information shock with the …

We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college …-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies … markedly different voting rates. Next, after controlling for students' college application portfolios and pre-college voting …