outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the observed effects. In the current study, we go beyond measuring the effect …

of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of second-decile minority … students decreased, respectively, by 2.4 and 3.3 percentage points. The effect of the change in admissions policy was slightly …

support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

low-income students at an elite public university. We find that the program increased four-year graduation rates by about … 8 percentage points for eligible students in the cohorts who experienced the fully developed program. For these cohorts … performance. We conclude that aid programs targeting low-income, high-ability students are most successful when they couple grant …

programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet their assigned PA when the PA was also male and (ii) these …

High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some … states offer alternative, non-tested pathways to graduation for students who have failed their exit exams. This study …