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college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …
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to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …
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-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …
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Non-financial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic literature documents policy efforts to understand and address these barriers. We review this literature on non-financial...
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,000 former students in their early- to mid-20s. Half of participants assigned to the treatment group were offered the opportunity …
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non-traditional students. We conducted a large-scale, multi-arm field experiment with the U.S. Army to investigate whether …
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, grades, and persistence. I estimate that two thirds of the plan's 9.1 point impact on top-decile students' probability of … attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more … likely to come from low- income high schools, and academically outperform the students that they displace. These effects …
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This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …
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rankings, and investigate how such policies can improve students' welfare in a Pareto sense. Pooling affects the equilibrium … allocation of studentso colleges, which hurts some students and benefits others, but also affects the effort students exert. We … admissions in Turkey. We find that a policy that pools a large fraction of the lowest performing students leads to a Pareto …
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centralized assignment mechanism. Leveraging unique administrative data and an information experiment, we show that students and … rival programs hold payoff-relevant information that each program could use to admit students with higher persistence rates … students to communicate first preferences would leave outcomes unchanged. An alternative model assuming independent private …
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