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 …

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 …

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 …

features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … end of high school. Lucky students take exams in subjects they are better at, and we show that this generates significant …

effect of aid generosity on college performance and labor market outcomes. The results show that students with a higher cost …

administrative records on for-profit school and community college attendance with quarterly earnings data for over 400,000 students … schooling by 20-29 percent for students attending for-profit schools and 16-27 percent for students attending community colleges … and community colleges. Finally, we present evidence showing that students in for-profit schools and community colleges …

’s degrees. We use individual fixed effects models on the matched sample of students and non-students from Finland to capture any …