to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …

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

Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …

-shaped. Finally, a reduction of 20 students (one standard deviation) in one's class size has a positive effect on monthly wages of …We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two … assignment of students to teaching classes. We find that a one standard deviation increase in class-size results in a 0 …

This paper estimates the effect of paid employment on grades of full-time, four-year students from four nationally …

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 …