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 …

the causal impact of parental housing wealth during different childhood periods on children's long-run wealth accumulation … during early-childhood is transmitted to children's overall and housing wealth in adulthood, respectively. The corresponding … increases in adult children's home ownership, educational attainment, and earnings. However, earnings and education can explain …

Low-Performing by increasing student achievement on high-stakes exams. Years later, these students are more likely to have … lowest-scoring students …

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

, students, and programs in the for-profit higher education sector, its phenomenal recent growth, and its relationship to the … federal and state governments. Using the 2004 to 2009 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) longitudinal survey we assess … outcomes of a recent cohort of first-time undergraduates who attended for-profits relative to comparable students who attended …

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

investments that we document leads to the question of how students from different backgrounds sort into these different … institutions and programs. We discuss the emerging research showing that lower-SES students, especially in the U.S., are more … policies designed to support success among students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Chapter concludes with some broad …