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 …

The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the …

-the-job-leisure, the higher the levels of stress during their work tasks. A back-of-the-envelope calculation based on time use data over … related to increases in worker stress. In analyzing workers' effort and stress during market work activities we contribute to …

performance - in particular, tournament incentives - induce more stress than schemes that are independent of performance - fixed … payment scheme. Stress is measured over the entire course of the experiment at both the hormonal and psychological level …. Hormonal stress responses are captured by measuring salivary cortisol levels. Psychological stress responses are measured by …

This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by … absence of treatment, students' underestimate their position in the grade distribution. The treatment significantly improves … the students' self-assessment. We find that treated students experience a significant decrease in their educational …

scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking over and above cognitive skills. Exploiting random assignment of students to …

showing a substitution towards veteran students. …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …