collected from students who entered the treatment and 50 control departments during a 15 year period that spanned the start of …

Each year, thousands of students graduate high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately … one-third of entering postsecondary students require remedial or developmental work before entering college-level courses … and English remediation using a unique dataset of approximately 28,000 students. To account for selection biases, the …

students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs … that ACT science scores improved by 0.2 points (or roughly 0.04 standard deviations) as a result of the MMC. Students who … impact on high school graduation for students who entered high school with the weakest academic preparation, but other …

We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two … assignment of students to teaching classes. We find that a one standard deviation increase in class-size results in a 0 … lower income students. Also, the effects of class composition in terms of gender and ability appear to be inverse U …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men …

to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market … for graduates. The principal finding is that the longitudinal/cohort earnings profile for college graduates flattened … markedly relative to that for high school graduates in the 1970s. With smaller growth rates of earnings for the college …

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 …

exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black … their students for expanded career choices." Geographic and institutional features of the higher education infrastructure … led to differential impacts of these policies on students born in different states. A data panel assembled for the project …

are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are … decisions of college graduates. The model is estimated using NLSY data, and used to quantify the sensitivity of migration and …