Students from 4-year colleges often arrive having already done very well in high school, but by the end of first term …, a wide dispersion of performance emerges, with an especially large lower tail. Students that do well in first year (we … call the top 10 percent Thrivers) tend to continue to do well throughout the rest of their time in university. Students …

We study procrastination in the context of a field experiment involving students who must exert costly effort to …-imposed deadlines, which appear to be associated with students' self-reported psychological characteristics and cost of time. We … structurally estimate students' present-bias and cost of time by fitting the experimental data to a stylized stopping time choice …

We survey 561 students from U.S. medical schools shortly after they submit choice rankings over residencies to the … satisfaction and Cantril's ladder) imply tradeoffs closer to choice than does affective happiness (even time-integrated), and as …

students in school. More specifically, we investigate how losing different types of social relationships during the transition … from elementary to middle school affect students' academic progress and general well-being. We use social relationships … identified by the students themselves in elementary school, as part of a unique aspect of the Tel Aviv school application process …

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 …

We analyze admissions and transcript records for students at multiple Ivy-Plus colleges to study the relationship … academic outcomes with a normalized slope four times greater than that from high school GPA, all conditional on students' race … college performance for students from less advantaged backgrounds. Collectively these results suggest that standardized test …

We study the determinants of poor mental health among students at an elite private institution. Survey measures of well …-being have declined significantly over the last decade for both high school students and those of college age. This is an …. Dartmouth ranks well compared to other institutions. However, around a quarter of Dartmouth students (26%) report they suffer …

What happens when college students cannot enroll in the courses they want? Using conditional random assignment to … any course in the corresponding subject by 30%. Course shutouts are particularly disruptive for female students, reducing …, shutouts do not appear to be disruptive to male students' long-run outcomes, with one exception--shutouts significantly …

-platform--a feature common to virtually all real-world implementations. These off-platform options generate justified envy, as students …: they allow students to delay their enrollment decision to potentially receive a better offer later, at the cost of waiting … and waiting decisions. We find that waiting costs are large. Yet, by improving students' assignment outcomes relative to a …