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 …

The college experience involves much more than credit hours and degrees. Students likely derive utility from in … come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we elicit students' intended likelihood of enrolling in higher education under … socioeconomic groups. Our analysis shows that economically-disadvantaged students derive substantially lower value from university …

to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …

-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 …

,000 former students in their early- to mid-20s. Half of participants assigned to the treatment group were offered the opportunity …

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

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

Most students who begin at a community college leave without earning a degree. Given the growing emphasis on student … former students. However, there is a lack of causal evidence on their effectiveness. We implement a text message-based re …-enrollment campaign in partnership with several Florida community colleges. Former students who were previously successful academically …