admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in … settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a … model that identifies the conditions under which the practice of tracking students by prior achievement increases …

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 …

control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction in the number of openings for new students across all universities …

We design a commitment contract for college students, "Study More Tomorrow," and conduct a randomized control trial … testing a model of its demand. The contract commits students to attend peer tutoring if their midterm grade falls below a … studying tested in the literature. We find demand for the contract, with take-up of 10% among students randomly assigned a …

-doctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the …-academic careers. One year later, both treatments lead students to update their beliefs about the academic market and impact career …

We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA …