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 …

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

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 …

students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of … these composition effects for wages. Our main finding is that there is a growing gap between the abilities of high school …

newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the …, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of …

-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best … assign, on average, lower grades and conjectured that female students exhibit stronger aversion to low grades, hence their … attachment to the field. A key implication is that categories of students who attach high importance to pecuniary benefits of …

European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size …. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most equitable performance for students from different family backgrounds, and Britain …

there is a demand for redistribution, the general equilibrium effects on relative wages might make a subsidy to education an …