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

propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts. The key feature of the model is that colleges want to admit students … who are enthusiastic about attending, and early admissions programs give students an opportunity to signal this enthusiasm …

students from 1999 to 2006, we document and exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment … encountered by students. Within an instrumental variables setup, we examine effects of the policy change on students grouped into … deciles defined by their 8th grade math test scores. First, we find that students took more math courses in high school …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

US universities have attracted hundreds of thousands of international students each year for the last decade. Some of … quasi-random variation in the tuition charged to international students by public US universities in the year that they … local labor supply by about 0.23 employees for master's students and about 0.11 for bachelor's students. These averages …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to … 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 …

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 … formalize this narrative as a simple dynamic structural model calibrated using data on education choices and returns. The model …

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 …