. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

first-generation students decrease in response to Honors admission, driven by low performance in natural science courses …. Results suggest that selective Honors programs can accelerate skill acquisition for high-achieving students at public … universities, but not all students benefit from Honors admission. …

high school graduates over three decades. We model prospective students' decisions about whether to attend community … college enrollment overall, rising costs at community colleges diverted other students to four-year colleges. Rising relative … costs of four-year public colleges similarly diverted some students toward community colleges but did not limit college …

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 …

college. To measure the value added from pre-college programs, we use a large dataset of United States Naval Academy students … find that preparatory programs have positive but limited effects for human capital development for undergraduate students … encourage students to choose STEM-oriented majors, and promote retention by lowering voluntary exits. …

We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human … should teach their students broader skills. …

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large … confinement measures adopted and the availability of class recordings. We use administrative data on four cohorts of students … of students from different enrolment cohorts observed in the same semester of their academic career before and after the …

, and a natural experiment conducted on, students from the United States Naval Academy (USNA). We develop a conceptual … rich set of covariates and the random assignment of students to peer groups. We find that students can be influenced by …

Why is the proportion of women who study Economics so low? This study assesses whether students respond to messages … 2,000 students enrolled in Economics Principles courses, with interventions proceeding in two phases. In the first phase …, randomly assigned students received a message with basic information about the Economics major, or the basic message combined …