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As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …
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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 …
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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 …
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are extremely low, especially among low-income students. Much of the existing policy and research attention to this issue …-academic obstacles might be key drivers of dropout rates for students living with the burden of poverty. This study examines the impact … of a comprehensive case management intervention that is designed specifically to help low-income students overcome the …
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College attendance is a risky investment. But students may not recognize when they are at risk for failure, and …, with negative impacts on persistence but positive effects on grades for students who remain enrolled. After three years … education by pushing out low-performing low-income students faster than their equally low-performing, but higher-income peers …
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mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …
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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 …
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In the 1970s, the American Economic Association (AEA) was one of several professional associations to launch a summer program with the goal of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in its profession. In this paper we estimate the effectiveness of the AEA's program which, to the best of our...
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programs' joining the platform led students to start college sooner and raised the share of students who graduated on time. We … students' ranked-ordered applications, on- and off-platform enrollment, and on-time graduation outcomes. When more programs … graduation rates. High-SES students have greater access to off-platform options, and gains from platform expansion are larger for …
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Ten states, beginning with Texas and California in 2001, have passed laws permitting undocumented students to pay the …
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