This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start …-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start … Association of University Technology Managers, the National Research Council, and the National Venture Capital Association …

-based aid is simply redistribution or a method of internalizing externalities among students. Many students would like colleges … would not qualify based on need. Yet, the same students might prefer a regime of need-based aid, knowing that it would apply …

There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …

Enrollment increased slightly at both the California State University and University of California systems in fall 2020 … 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 …

sciences and STEM - introductory chemistry labs - at a large public university. The uncommon assignment method of students to … instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …

track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …

schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate … enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

effect: low persistence rates and the potential for diverting students from 4-year institutions cast ambiguity over 2-year … would not have attended college, but negative impacts on students diverted from immediate 4-year entry …