We use large-scale surveys of Chilean college applicants and college students to explore the way students form beliefs … to observed values for past students and follow survey participants forward to see how beliefs relate to matriculation … and dropout outcomes. We find that students have correctly centered but noisy cost expectations, and appear to …

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

We analyze admissions and transcript records for students at multiple Ivy-Plus colleges to study the relationship … academic outcomes with a normalized slope four times greater than that from high school GPA, all conditional on students' race … college performance for students from less advantaged backgrounds. Collectively these results suggest that standardized test …

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 uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …

government and reached 30% of student loan applicants. We show that the low-income and low-achieving students who apply to low …-earning college degree programs overestimate earnings for past graduates by over 100%, while beliefs for high-achieving students are … correctly centered. Treatment causes low-income students to reduce their demand for low-return degrees by 4.6%, and increases …