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 …

effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes … school year. All students, not only struggling students, are pulled out. We find that students in treatment schools increased …

between students’ years spent in ECE and the results of their educational assessment outcomes at age 15.Using PISA survey data …

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first-time students’ success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these …