amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes … of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on all four-year colleges in the U.S. We find that most students do … taste for amenities is broad-based, the taste for academic quality is confined to high-achieving students. The heterogeneity …

Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment … struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some students may face initial challenges, by … disadvantages, these programs may enable students to bridge the gap and catch up to their peers. In this study, we examine the …

intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side … students' high school performance, they could remediate substantially fewer students without lowering success rates in college …

-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are sensitive to the distance they must travel to access public colleges … and universities, but there are heterogeneous effects across students - particularly with regard to distance to public two …-year colleges (i.e., community colleges). White, Asian, and higher-income students who live in a community college desert (i.e., at …

Roughly 25 percent of first-year college students do not return for a second year. This has led to a range of policies …

We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U … socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a … large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these …

College success requires students to engage with their institution academically and administratively. Missteps with …-based chatbot that proactively reached out to students to support navigation of administrative processes and use of campus resources … targeting college students to formulate testable hypotheses about their effective use for promoting college success …

Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less lucrative fields … stratification at public research universities, many of which increasingly prevent students with poor introductory grades from … implementation of 25 GPA-based restrictions. Restrictions disproportionately filter out less-prepared students with fewer pre …

. This paper attempts to fill this void using a unique dataset of students at public, four-year colleges in Ohio. The paper …. Because students with alternative instructors may differ systematically from other students, the paper uses two empirical … differ by discipline. Adjuncts and graduate assistants negatively affect students in the humanities while positively …