students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal … cohorts, students were allowed to choose their teams from among students in their section (roughly 90 students). In other … cohorts, students were randomly assigned to teams based upon a computer algorithm. In the cohorts that were allowed to choose …

This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start …-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start … Association of University Technology Managers, the National Research Council, and the National Venture Capital Association …

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 … or university. This is despite the fact that selective institutions would often cost them less, owing to generous …, high-achieving, low-income students who do apply to selective institutions are admitted and graduate at high rates. We …

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 …

amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes … of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on all four-year colleges in the U.S. We find that most students do … taste for amenities is broad-based, the taste for academic quality is confined to high-achieving students. The heterogeneity …

connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … of the admissions guarantee depend on the university and the type of students it attracts, and that the law is binding …The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed …

-income students. This implies that there is scope for a policy to redirect loan dollars – and therefore students – from low …