lucrative careers. It further explains why such students also tend to exhibit higher dropout rates from college. …-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 …

succeed academically and drop out. (ii) At the college entry stage, their poor graduation prospects deter low ability students …This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half … of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea …

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 …

educational attainment, although retained students are later to graduate. Grade retention does lead to annual earnings loss at age …Grade retention offers students a chance to catch up with unmastered material but also leads to less labor …-market experience by delaying graduation and labor-market entry. This is the first paper to quantify this trade-off, using an exit exam …

selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …-shaped earnings growth profile we observe among college-educated workers in the U.S. …

of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees … earnings, driven by subject choice. These inequalities in match are largest among the most undermatched. …

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 …

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 …