Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also …

Britain have gained appeal in attracting postdocs, but not in attracting PhD students. Canada has made gains in neither …

-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S …&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States. The foreign students more likely to stay in the US are those with … fellowships. Foreign students staying in the United States thus appear to be positively selected in terms of academic ability. We …

-based aid is simply redistribution or a method of internalizing externalities among students. Many students would like colleges … would not qualify based on need. Yet, the same students might prefer a regime of need-based aid, knowing that it would apply …

There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …