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 …

. More selective and better funded schools, and those enrolling socio-economically advantaged students, teach more frontier …. Students from schools teaching more frontier knowledge are more likely to complete a PhD, produce more patents, and earn more …

large negative research effects, disproportionately affecting junior faculty and PhD students. Finally, faculty facing …

that executive compensation is linked to these perceived "competence" ratings. Our analysis explores these findings in more …-facedness" of the CEO. That is, more mature looking CEOs are assigned higher "competence" scores. This finding is potentially …. Essentially, the "look" of competence says very little about effective competence …