focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …

We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression …

socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a … potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …

about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …

provision of structured information on the true state of the academic market and information through role models on non …

support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the … German electorate (N>19,500). The electorate is divided, with a slight plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on … the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points, turning the plurality in favor. The …

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply …