college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

rankings, and investigate how such policies can improve students' welfare in a Pareto sense. Pooling affects the equilibrium … allocation of studentso colleges, which hurts some students and benefits others, but also affects the effort students exert. We … admissions in Turkey. We find that a policy that pools a large fraction of the lowest performing students leads to a Pareto …

to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

,000 former students in their early- to mid-20s. Half of participants assigned to the treatment group were offered the opportunity …

centralized assignment mechanism. Leveraging unique administrative data and an information experiment, we show that students and … rival programs hold payoff-relevant information that each program could use to admit students with higher persistence rates … students to communicate first preferences would leave outcomes unchanged. An alternative model assuming independent private …

, grades, and persistence. I estimate that two thirds of the plan's 9.1 point impact on top-decile students' probability of … attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more … likely to come from low- income high schools, and academically outperform the students that they displace. These effects …

non-traditional students. We conducted a large-scale, multi-arm field experiment with the U.S. Army to investigate whether …

economic and racial composition of incoming students. Because endowment levels are a function of expenditures and alumni giving … colleges and universities do not increase the number of students they serve or the fraction of students receiving aid, and only … more selective and enrolling fewer low-income students and students of color. Overall, colleges and universities appear to …