in China has approximately quadrupled in the last 6 years. The size of entering classes of new students and total student …This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the …

country using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) in China. The NCEE is one of the most important … institutions in China and affects hundreds of millions of families. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in temperature … earnings of students …

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 …, high-achieving, low-income students who do apply to selective institutions are admitted and graduate at high rates. We … demonstrate that these low-income students' application behavior differs greatly from that of their high-income counterparts who …

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 …

The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed … connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above …

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