come at the expense of students and taxpayer.To lower the cost of education, federal government policies should encourage … bargaining advantage that colleges currently hold over prospective students.The higher-education industry is heavily subsidized … education, its goal should be to ensure that all deserving students have access to higher education, not to maintain high …

This paper was prepared as a chapter for College Decisions: How Students Actually Make Them and How They Could, edited … students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to estimate the effect of roommates …' academic characteristics on an individual's grades. The results suggest that, for two of the three schools used, students in …

, and a natural experiment conducted on, students from the United States Naval Academy (USNA). We develop a conceptual … rich set of covariates and the random assignment of students to peer groups. We find that students can be influenced by …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …