, 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 …

experimentally test the effects of these two models on the schooling decisions of low-income students. An unconditional free tuition … contingent on proof of need has a much smaller effect on application and none on enrollment. The results suggest students place a …

The increased popularity of college Grade Forgiveness policies, which allow students to retake classes and substitute … first to ask whether such policies benefit students and how. To answer these questions, we use student-level admissions and … Grade Forgiveness significantly incentivizes students, especially students with the strongest academic preparation, to take …

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …

informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students …. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt more supported during the college application process and applied more … intermediate outcomes were larger for the types of students we anticipated would most need additional support during the college …

Low-income students, even those with strong academic credentials, are unlikely to attend a highly selective college …. With a field experiment, we test an intervention to increase enrollment of low-income students at the highly selective … University of Michigan. We contact students (as well as their parents and principals) with an encouragement to apply and a …

high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the college admissions … process in 2006-2007; we selected 52 of these students at random, offering them ten hours of individualized college advising … have influenced the choice of where the students applied to college. We estimate that students offered counseling were 7 …