I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

For decades, colleges and universities have struggled to increase participation of minority and disadvantaged students …. Urban school districts confront a parallel challenge; minority and disadvantaged students are underrepresented in selective … district, we find profiling by race and income, and affirmative action for low-income students. Counterfactual analysis reveals …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

application rates, particularly for Hispanic students, are not explained by differential levels of college readiness, high school … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …

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 …

field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students … for the majority of disadvantaged students targeted by the policy, by mitigating so-called "discouragement effects." The …

targeted subgroups of students have the lowest achievement and to implement reforms in these “Focus Schools.” In this study, we …