-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two years of college can be attributed to what students learn about their … could influence dropout. Our simulations show that students who perform poorly tend to learn that staying in school is not …

The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed … connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above …

-invariant unobservable characteristics of students, we find that students who enroll in associate's degree programs in for-profit colleges …. Since associate's degree students attend for an average of 2.6 years, this translates to a 4 percent return per year of …

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 …

amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes … of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on all four-year colleges in the U.S. We find that most students do … taste for amenities is broad-based, the taste for academic quality is confined to high-achieving students. The heterogeneity …

Half of all college students take at least one remedial course as part of their postsecondary experience, despite mixed … students' skills. But we also find relatively little evidence that it discourages either initial enrollment or persistence … appears to be diversionary: students simply take remedial courses instead of college-level courses. These diversionary effects …

Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at … of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly … that students enter school quite optimistic/interested about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students …

is a growing literature suggesting students attending higher quality universities have better educational and labor … students. Our findings indicate a $10,000 increase in a family's housing wealth in the four years prior to a student becoming … wealth on where students apply, not on whether they are admitted. We also find that short-run increases in home prices lead …