This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …

. This paper focuses on individuals who have completed university and provides new evidence on differences in graduates … 7% more per year, on average, than state school students some 3.5 years after graduation, even when comparing otherwise … similar graduates and allowing for differences in degree subject, university attended and degree classification. This work …

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

As the number of secondary school graduates rises, many developing countries expand the supply of public and private …-quality university programs, and job-education mismatches. More university graduates in this context could exacerbate unemployment …

standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had … between NAEP scores and students' later life outcomes by year and state of birth. We find that a standard deviation … average K-12 student (or $19,400), totaling $900 billion for the 48 million students enrolled in public schools during the …

There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the …

tuition coverage to students admitted to one of 33 government-certified high-quality universities known for superior test …. To qualify, students must score in the top 10% of the standardized high school exit exam and have below-median household … partly by high-quality universities improving students' skills, as demonstrated by their performance on Colombia's college …

number of exams students must pass to obtain a fixed number of credits. Using event-study estimates that leverage the reform …, suggesting that the reform's compliers--students who managed to graduate on time under the new regime but would have been delayed …