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 …

,500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal … impact of the pandemic on students' current and expected outcomes. Results show large negative effects across many dimensions …. Due to COVID-19: 13% of students have delayed graduation, 40% lost a job, internship, or a job offer, and 29% expect to …

this decline is most pronounced amongst men beginning college at less-selective public 4-year schools and amongst students … preparedness of entering students and the component due to collegiate characteristics, including type of institution and resources …

persistence of at-risk students at scale …

We use unique data to examine how college students from low income families form expectations about academic ability … characterize beliefs. At the time of entrance, students tend to substantially discount the possibility of bad grade performance …, students update their beliefs in a manner which takes into account both initial beliefs and new information, with heterogeneity …

We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to the negative incentive brought on by being … differently based on ability, we find that being placed on probation at the end of the first year discourages some students from … is known, we find that heterogeneous discouragement effects result in high ability students having a greater overall …

sources do not provide a direct way of identifying which students are credit constrained. This has forced researchers to adopt …-out decisions of some students, the large majority of attrition of students from low income families should be primarily attributed …

We examine the impact of a temporary price shock on the attainment of undocumented college students enrolled in a large … undocumented students. By fall 2002, the state legislature restored in-state rates. Using a differences … immediate 8 percent decrease in senior college students' enrollment. Senior college students who entered college the semester …

out from tertiary education: SGL reduced the first year dropout rate by 6.8% for students enrolled in five-year colleges … incentivized higher education institutions to retain students at the expense of not securing the quality of education …