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 …

not detectable by existing mean-based tests. Beliefs about future income are found to become more accurate as students …

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 …

for the marginal students themselves, 10-12 percent for society (which must pay for the additional education), and 3 …This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …

researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …, particularly to address what employers seek from higher education graduates and to assess the validity of current measures of …Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based …

-stakes college entrance exam in China. To overcome selection bias, we use a regression discontinuity design that compares applicants …

China has been grown at approximately 30% per year since 1999, and the number of graduates at all levels of higher education …This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … stages of development instead stressed primary and secondary education. The number of undergraduate and graduate students in …

country using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) in China. The NCEE is one of the most important … institutions in China and affects hundreds of millions of families. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in temperature … earnings of students …