enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

When effort is observable to peers, students may act to avoid social penalties by conforming to prevailing norms. To … test for such behavior, we conducted an experiment in which 11th grade students were offered complimentary access to an … online SAT preparatory course. Signup sheets differed randomly across students (within classrooms) only in the extent to …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

achievement is -0.042 standard deviations in math and -0.034 standard deviations in reading, per year. Students enrolled in … this, specialized teachers report providing less attention to individual students (relative to non-specialized teachers …

track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …

We examine how disadvantaged students make postsecondary education decisions, focusing on why they often opt for short … disadvantaged Black youth in Baltimore. We use these data to develop and explore a complementary narrative: students who have faced …

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