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This paper compares the careers of Ivy League athletes to those of their non-athlete classmates. Combining team-level information on all Ivy League athletes from 1970 to 2021 with resume data for all Ivy League graduates, we examine both post-graduate education and career choices as well as...
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students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at a relatively broad range of outcomes, including college and graduate …
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In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants for freshman admission to submit letters of recommendation. This proved controversial within the university, with concerns that this change would further disadvantage applicants...
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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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Since the spring of 2021, nearly 700 colleges and universities in the U.S. have mandated that their students become …
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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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There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates … than white students with similar academic qualifications. However, there have been few empirical investigations of this … American and white students to a subset of selective U.S. institutions over five application cycles, beginning with the 2015 …
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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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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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This paper presents the first evidence of how students make career technical education (CTE) course-taking decisions …
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