best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … their grade performance will be substantially lower than expected. Further, changes in beliefs about grade performance arise …

's testable prediction in the presence of this confounding issue-an individual's ordinal rank predicts her behavior, ceteris …

College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

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 …

significant reductions in academic performance, particularly for the highest-performing students. This suggests that the negative …

, academic performance and mental health. The conclusion holds when non-member comparison groups are restricted to drinkers who …

symptoms, feeling sad and losing interest in usual activities for at least two consecutive weeks, among high school students … below, by over 15%. Coefficient sizes are similar when comparison groups are restricted to students engaging in correlated … behaviors and in matching and instrumental variable models, suggesting that sadness causally reduces academic performance …

We consider the relationship between collegiate-football success and non-athlete student performance. We find that the … also report that their behavior is affected by athletic success, suggesting that their performance is likely impaired but …

's performance changes after he gains legal access to alcohol, controlling flexibly for the expected evolution of grades as students … make progress towards their degrees. We find that students' grades fall below their expected levels upon being able to …