We study procrastination in the context of a field experiment involving students who must exert costly effort to …-imposed deadlines, which appear to be associated with students' self-reported psychological characteristics and cost of time. We … structurally estimate students' present-bias and cost of time by fitting the experimental data to a stylized stopping time choice …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

students?3) Which offer of admission does the student accept?This paper addresses question three. Specifically, we offer an … econometric analysis of the matriculation decisions made by students accepted to Williams College, one of the nation's most highly …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor%u2019s degree, but were 39 … at first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students …

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

team size by the number of authors on a scientific paper. Using this measure we find that team size increases by 50 percent … over the 19-year period. We supplement team size with measures of domestic and foreign institutional collaborations, which … capture the geographic dispersion of team workers. The time series evidence suggests that the trend towards larger and more …