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 …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level …

centralized assignment mechanism. Leveraging unique administrative data and an information experiment, we show that students and … rival programs hold payoff-relevant information that each program could use to admit students with higher persistence rates … students to communicate first preferences would leave outcomes unchanged. An alternative model assuming independent private …

likely to come from low- income high schools, and academically outperform the students that they displace. These effects …, grades, and persistence. I estimate that two thirds of the plan's 9.1 point impact on top-decile students' probability of … attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more …

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 …

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

experimentally test the effects of these two models on the schooling decisions of low-income students. An unconditional free tuition … contingent on proof of need has a much smaller effect on application and none on enrollment. The results suggest students place a …