This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …

? ii) To what extent do schools contribute to their students' academic success? To answer these questions, we model … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We …We find that students infer the quality of a school from its selectivity and past performance on the university …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

If satisfaction with life (SWL) is used to measure individual wellbeing, the dispersion of its distribution offers a …

in China has approximately quadrupled in the last 6 years. The size of entering classes of new students and total student …This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the …

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 …

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

An emerging literature documents the many challenges faced by college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is … known, however, about how students responded to the adversity. Focusing on two large Canadian universities, we provide some … of the first evidence on the coping strategies students reported and the relationships between their endorsement of …