number of for-profit institutions is double the official count and the number of students enrolled during the year is between … students cannot apply for federal financial aid. The dollar value of the premium is about equal to the amount of grant aid and … loan subsidy received by students in eligible institutions, lending some credence to a variant of the "Bennett hypothesis …

admitting in-state versus out-of-state students. States have an interest in using universities to attract and retain high … an interest in their graduates being successful, but little interest in where students come from or where they go after … states in fact gain financially when public universities admit additional out-of-state students. This is because attending a …

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 …

students from 1999 to 2006, we document and exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment … encountered by students. Within an instrumental variables setup, we examine effects of the policy change on students grouped into … deciles defined by their 8th grade math test scores. First, we find that students took more math courses in high school …

Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …

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 …

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 …

themselves. We also find that PhD production is negatively related to the total number of students and the share of total BAs …