Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …

particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to … three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room … with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear …

: SGL reduced the first year dropout rate by 6.8% for students enrolled in five-year colleges and by 64.3% for those … market outcomes, we find that SGL beneficiaries have lower wages (up to 6.4% less) than those who did not "benefit'' from the … institutions to retain students at the expense of not securing the quality of education …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …

dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …