-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 …

-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 …

This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students’ major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

number of for-profit institutions is double the official count and the number of students enrolled during the year is between … students cannot apply for federal financial aid. The dollar value of the premium is about equal to the amount of grant aid and … loan subsidy received by students in eligible institutions, lending some credence to a variant of the "Bennett hypothesis …

depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address … potential biases from sorting by focusing on students with restricted course enrollment options due to low registration … priorities, students not getting first section choices, and on courses with no within-term or within-year racial variation in …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …

We test whether students in a hybrid format of introductory microeconomics, which met once per week, performed as well … as students in a traditional lecture format of the same class, which met twice per week. We randomized 725 students at a … percent. Two experienced professors taught one section of each format, and students in both formats had access to the same …