I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South … about students that is of common interest to all colleges, lower-ranked colleges can gain in competition with higher …

track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

We examine how disadvantaged students make postsecondary education decisions, focusing on why they often opt for short … disadvantaged Black youth in Baltimore. We use these data to develop and explore a complementary narrative: students who have faced …

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …

Most students who begin at a community college leave without earning a degree. Given the growing emphasis on student … former students. However, there is a lack of causal evidence on their effectiveness. We implement a text message-based re …-enrollment campaign in partnership with several Florida community colleges. Former students who were previously successful academically …

College admissions in the U.S. is decentralized, with students applying separately to each school. This creates … the introduction of the Common Application (CA) platform, under which students submit a single application to all member … accepted students, consistent with increased student choice, and institutions respond to the reduced yield by admitting more …

informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students …. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt more supported during the college application process and applied more … intermediate outcomes were larger for the types of students we anticipated would most need additional support during the college …