-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more …

as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …

in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …

Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more … likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes initiated by instructors. These gender differences cannot be … explained by observable characteristics of the students, instructors, and the classes. To understand the mechanisms underlying …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were … randomly assigned to a treatment that primed their awareness of a stereotyped identity (i.e., student-athlete). This treatment …

Twenty-five cohorts of medical students were asked in their first and fourth year of school to estimate contemporaneous … physician income in six different specialties. The students' income estimation errors varied systematically over time and cross … absolute value of the estimation errors was 26 percent of actual income. Students were 35 percent more accurate when estimating …

variation from a Colombian financial aid reform boosting the share of low-income students at an elite university. Combining … college records and original survey data, I study how diversity affects high-income students' social networks, perceptions … low-income peers caused high-income students to diversify their social networks, have more accurate perceptions of the …

by carrying out algorithmic audits of Facebook in its two biggest markets, the US and India, focusing on two algorithms …