indicate strong selectivity of test-takers in quot;ACT states,quot; where most college-bound students take the ACT, and much …

subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to …-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …

informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students …. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt more supported during the college application process and applied more … intermediate outcomes were larger for the types of students we anticipated would most need additional support during the college …

College admissions in the U.S. is decentralized, with students applying separately to each school. This creates … the introduction of the Common Application (CA) platform, under which students submit a single application to all member … accepted students, consistent with increased student choice, and institutions respond to the reduced yield by admitting more …

completion and earnings for all students. We find evidence of meaningful complementarity between student ability and college … students to higher quality colleges …

earnings of students …

market outcomes of their students. There is no consensus, however, on how such measures should be constructed, or how the … systems. We conclude that labor market data provides information that is quite distinct from students' academic outcomes …