particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to … three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room … with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear …

as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …

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 …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level …

In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple …, the resources of colleges and universities, and labor markets in the United States and countries sending students …

We estimate a model of high school students' college choices, allowing for rich heterogeneity in students' preferences … for college attributes. We use data on students' enrollment decisions and application decisions--i.e., the sets of … colleges to which they applied--to identify the distribution of students' preferences. We use our estimates to quantify …