Program evaluations often focus on average treatment effects. However, average treatment effects miss important aspects of policy evaluation, such as the impact on inequality and whether treatment harms some individuals. A growing literature develops methods to evaluate such issues by examining...

There have been large increases in two-year, four-year public, and four-year private college enrollment since the start of the Great Recession—slightly larger than expected based on the historical relationships between unemployment and enrollment, and significantly larger than expected if the...