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 …

Colleges compete to attract students by investing in amenities such as athletics, dormitories, and student activities … bottom of the achievement distribution and driven by in-state students and students attending during seasons when the team …

"We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students … random assignment of students to teaching classes. We find that a one standard deviation increase in class-size results in a … males and lower income students. Also, the effects of class composition in terms of gender and ability appear to be inverse …