aid could reduce student loan defaults without restricting prospective students' access to higher education. We examine …, market enrollment declines by just 3 percent. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to enroll in …

enrollment impacts, particularly for low-income students and for those attending two-year colleges. The states have chosen to …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

College attendance is a risky investment. But students may not recognize when they are at risk for failure, and …, with negative impacts on persistence but positive effects on grades for students who remain enrolled. After three years … education by pushing out low-performing low-income students faster than their equally low-performing, but higher-income peers …

are extremely low, especially among low-income students. Much of the existing policy and research attention to this issue …-academic obstacles might be key drivers of dropout rates for students living with the burden of poverty. This study examines the impact … of a comprehensive case management intervention that is designed specifically to help low-income students overcome the …

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …

Does student aid increase college attendance or simply subsidize costs for infra-marginal students? Settling the … totaling $3.7 billion a year to one out of ten college students. Using the death of a parent as a proxy for Social Security …