as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …

colleges that students attend, the three key factors that give children from high-income families an admissions advantage are …. Could such colleges -- which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families … due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families; the remaining third is …

non-traditional students. We conducted a large-scale, multi-arm field experiment with the U.S. Army to investigate whether …

-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more …

the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the … in constrained students' persistence or degree receipt. We document that among programs in which a larger share of … graduate students had exhausted their annual federal loan eligibility before the policy change--and thus were more exposed to …

US universities have attracted hundreds of thousands of international students each year for the last decade. Some of … quasi-random variation in the tuition charged to international students by public US universities in the year that they … local labor supply by about 0.23 employees for master's students and about 0.11 for bachelor's students. These averages …

to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …

Since the spring of 2021, nearly 700 colleges and universities in the U.S. have mandated that their students become …