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 …

due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …

enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher … average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The evidence points to students making pre-college choices that caused … this divergence. Using linked survey-administrative data, we present evidence consistent with students being averse to …

. This study estimates the effect of class size on academic performance of university students, distinguishing between STEM …,000 students and a total of more than 190,000 observations, spanning six cohorts of first-year undergraduate students across all … the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM disciplines …

grade students rank fields of study and admissions to oversubscribed fields is determined based on a student's GPA. We use a … field choices students make at age 16, when they may have limited information about their skills and the labor market, have …

This paper explores students’ expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of …

of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We … also find that pro-vision of feedback reduces the gap between teachers. self-assessment and students. assessment, but only …

Reflection Test. In pre-registered laboratory experiments with 1,236 college students in Nairobi, we implement three incentive …