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 … larger for minority students in the third and lower deciles: fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation …

leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students. … growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student …

We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with … other group. Under these conditions, we determine the optimal size of the minority from the minority?s perspective, and …

enhances the productivity of students and may modify their language endowment. Under a unilingual system, the language of the … implementation of the socially optimal education system, while the unilingual system is too often implemented under minority rule. In …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …

cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 - from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …