? ii) To what extent do schools contribute to their students' academic success? To answer these questions, we model … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We …, controlling for mean reversion bias, we look at each school's value-added.We find that students infer the quality of a school from …

outcomes, knowledge of the causal effect of the most fundamental input in the education production function - students' study …

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low …

indicate substantial amounts of both undermatch (high ability students at low quality colleges) and overmatch (low ability … students at high quality colleges). Student application and enrollment decisions, rather than college admission decisions … probability of mismatch. More informed students attend higher quality colleges, even when doing so involves overmatching …

quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented … variable bias and free from considering the equilibrium matching of workers to jobs. While there is substantial heterogeneity … job attribute preferences to major choice. Using data on students' perceptions about the demand side of the labor market …

high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the college admissions … process in 2006-2007; we selected 52 of these students at random, offering them ten hours of individualized college advising … have influenced the choice of where the students applied to college. We estimate that students offered counseling were 7 …

Colleges rely on the ACT exam in their admission decisions to increase their ability to differentiate between students …

We show that the vast majority of very high-achieving students who are low-income do not apply to any selective college …, high-achieving, low-income students who do apply to selective institutions are admitted and graduate at high rates. We … demonstrate that these low-income students' application behavior differs greatly from that of their high-income counterparts who …

Half of all college students take at least one remedial course as part of their postsecondary experience, despite mixed … students' skills. But we also find relatively little evidence that it discourages either initial enrollment or persistence … appears to be diversionary: students simply take remedial courses instead of college-level courses. These diversionary effects …

, we show that this law change had a large negative impact on the college attendance of students with drug convictions. On … enrollment by about two years, and we also present suggestive evidence that affected students were less likely to ever enroll in … college. Students living in urban areas and those whose mothers did not attend college appear to be the most affected by these …