in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …

Introduction / Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn, and Megan MacGarvie --I. Location choices of international students and … characteristics, preferences, and employment outcomes of native and foreign science and engineering PhD students /Michael Roach, Henry …

We study a unique grading policy at a large US public university allowing students to mask their letter grades into a … "Pass", after having observed their original grade. Using administrative transcript records, we find that female students … are substantially less likely to mask their grades than male students, even after accounting for differences in grades …

-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 …

This paper provides the first estimates of the contemporaneous effect of drinking water quality violations on students …

We conduct a survey-based experiment with 2,776 students at a non-profit university to analyze income insurance demand … in education financing. We offered students a hypothetical choice: either a federal loan with income-driven repayment or … ISA uptake by 43%. We observe that students are responsive to changes in contract terms and possible student loan …