policies that emerge from their competition for students. The calibrated version of the model matches well the aggregate … distribution of federal aid. Predictions about the distribution of students across colleges by ability and income and about the …, virtually all of the increase being in state colleges and mainly of poor students. Private colleges reduce institutional aid and …

admitting in-state versus out-of-state students. States have an interest in using universities to attract and retain high … an interest in their graduates being successful, but little interest in where students come from or where they go after … states in fact gain financially when public universities admit additional out-of-state students. This is because attending a …

harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of … unfunded research have increased. One theory is that researchers more effectively teach higher order skills and therefore … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …

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 …

enrollment patterns and the academic outcomes of community college students using administrative college-level panel data … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college … enrolment dropped precipitously in fall 2020 - the total number of enrolled students fell by 4 percent in spring 2020 and by 15 …

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 …

? 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 …

The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed … connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above …