This paper investigates the effects of high-speed Internet on students' college application decisions. We link the … outcomes and find that students with access to high-speed Internet in their junior year of high school perform better on the …-SES students, indicating that while, on average, high-speed Internet improved students' postsecondary outcomes, it may have …

Millions of high school students who take an Advanced Placement (AP) course in one of over 30 subjects can earn college … that 15 percent of students' AP courses do not result in an AP exam. We predict that up to 32 percent of the AP courses … district exam subsidies on AP exam-taking rates. In fact, students on free and reduced-price lunch (FRL) in the districts that …

Hispanic high school graduates have lower college completion rates than academically similar white students. As … Hispanic students have been theorized to be more constrained in the college search and selection process, one potential policy … lever is to increase the set of colleges to which these students apply and attend. In this paper, we investigate the impacts …

fees and admissions essay requirements, to demonstrate that students strongly respond to small costs in the college …