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. …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

-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 …

female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …

This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and … measure of student-to-degree match employing minimal assumptions. We find that students who are the first in the family to … contrast, only the highest achieving female students relatively undermatch. These gaps are larger at the application stage. We …