The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

aid could reduce student loan defaults without restricting prospective students' access to higher education. We examine …, market enrollment declines by just 3 percent. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to enroll in …

We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid … years (2004-2006), in which students received additional institutional grant aid and few non-financial supports, improved … postsecondary progress, performance, or completion. In contrast, program-eligible students in more recent cohorts (2007-2010), when …

trial that provides such students with individualized information about the college application process and colleges' net … prices. In other work (Hoxby and Turner 2013), we show that the informational intervention substantially raises students … the intervention actually changes students' informedness on key topics such as the cost of college, the availability of …

We show that the vast majority of very high-achieving students who are low-income do not apply to any selective college …, high-achieving, low-income students who do apply to selective institutions are admitted and graduate at high rates. We … demonstrate that these low-income students' application behavior differs greatly from that of their high-income counterparts who …

. Could such colleges -- which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families … due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families; the remaining third is … students applying from private high schools that have affluent student bodies, and (3) recruitment of athletes, who tend to …

-ability college students. The Longhorn Opportunity Scholars (LOS) and Century Scholars (CS) programs recruited at specified low …-income high schools, provided additional financial aid, and enhanced support services once enrolled in college if students … records for Texas public college students, we find via difference-in-differences estimates that the LOS program had a large …

experienced by students outside of school. Chronic stress - due to neighborhood violence, poverty, or family instability - can … students' stress responses using cortisol samples provided by low-income students in New Orleans. We measure how their cortisol …A potential contributor to socioeconomic disparities in academic performance is the difference in the level of stress …

focus our attention on student outliers. Students whose first-year college average is far below expectations (divers) have a … 'get rich' quickly. In contrast, students who exceed expectations (thrivers) express more philanthropic goals, are purpose …