the distribution of earnings. We proxy college quality using the college sector from which students graduate and focus on …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

-ability college students. The Longhorn Opportunity Scholars (LOS) and Century Scholars (CS) programs recruited at specified low-income … combined with adequate supports and financial aid can substantially increase enrollment of low-income students in higher …We study two interventions in Texas that were designed to overcome multiple hurdles faced by low-income, high …

Talented students compete fiercely for seats at Boston and New York exam schools. These schools are characterized by … students do very well in school, the question of whether an exam school education adds value relative to a regular public … most students' achievement. We use two-stage least squares to convert reduced form estimates of the effects of exam school …

to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …

non-charter levels (that is, the average achievement level for urban non-charter students), and beyond non …

special-need students, groups that charter critics have argued are typically under-served. The results show overall gains of 0 ….35 standard deviations in math and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn. LEP students, special … education students, and those with low baseline scores benefit more from time spent at KIPP than do other students, with reading …

-effects controls, which is consistent with students choosing majors based on comparative advantage. We do not find statistically …