American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that … education in the four-year sector, is 12 percentage points more likely to earn a bachelor's degree, and eventually earns 5 … for the marginal students themselves, 10-12 percent for society (which must pay for the additional education), and 3 …

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …

these confidence sets to draw inferences about uncertainty in the ranking of economics journals and universities by impact …

while simultaneously causing it to fall in other colleges. I show that the integration of the market for college education … has had profound implications on the peers whom college students experience, the resources invested in their education …

We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university … competition for research funding. We show that university autonomy and competition are positively correlated with university …

We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct … extends models used for ranking players in tournaments, such as chess or tennis. When a student makes his matriculation … the information contained in thousands of these wins and losses. Our method produces a ranking that would be difficult for …

education and business. After initial choices, those respondents with high levels of religiosity are more likely to enter … college. Of those who are in college, people with high levels of religiosity tend to go into the humanities and education over …

Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …