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 …

positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

students to generally exhibit stronger "sensitivity" to grades. We examine student persistence in a wide spectrum of academic … make students more responsive to grades received in it, rather than the other way around as is commonly suggested. …

-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points-equivalent to 3.7 native … students displaced for 9 additional foreign students in an average course. STEM displacement is offset by an increased …

significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students … Academy in which students are randomly assigned to certain courses either during or after the semester in which they are … required to select their college major. We find that when students are assigned to a course in the same semester as they select …

-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 …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

administrative records about high school, college admission, college attendance and tax returns. Students with score just above the … admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … explore the counterfactual college career of not admitted students and the potential mechanisms underlying the estimated …

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 …

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 …