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

-ability college students. The Longhorn Opportunity Scholars (LOS) and Century Scholars (CS) programs recruited at specified low-income … combined with adequate supports and financial aid can substantially increase enrollment of low-income students in higher …We study two interventions in Texas that were designed to overcome multiple hurdles faced by low-income, high …

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 …

Talented students compete fiercely for seats at Boston and New York exam schools. These schools are characterized by … students do very well in school, the question of whether an exam school education adds value relative to a regular public … most students' achievement. We use two-stage least squares to convert reduced form estimates of the effects of exam school …

coverage for low-income children increases the rate of high school completion and college completion. These estimates are … children in the 1980s and 1990s on their future educational attainment. Our findings indicate that expanding health insurance … robust to only using federal Medicaid expansions, and mostly are due to expansions that occur when the children are older (i …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

We examine whether changes in the local school choice environment affect the amount of information parents collect … parents have about local schools is endogenous to the choice environment they face, and that parental information depends not …

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 …

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