I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment … struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some students may face initial challenges, by … disadvantages, these programs may enable students to bridge the gap and catch up to their peers. In this study, we examine the …

For decades, colleges and universities have struggled to increase participation of minority and disadvantaged students …. Urban school districts confront a parallel challenge; minority and disadvantaged students are underrepresented in selective … district, we find profiling by race and income, and affirmative action for low-income students. Counterfactual analysis reveals …

privileged students who are the first in their families to attend a university. The program impacted students from localities up …

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 …

. 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 …

, 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 …

application rates, particularly for Hispanic students, are not explained by differential levels of college readiness, high school … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students. The …