-based aid is simply redistribution or a method of internalizing externalities among students. Many students would like colleges … would not qualify based on need. Yet, the same students might prefer a regime of need-based aid, knowing that it would apply …

There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …

randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test … whether informing students they have been caught cheating reduces subsequent cheating. We find informing students about our … capability to detect plagiarism has little effect on cheating. Notifying students that they have been caught cheating and are on …

Reflection Test. In laboratory experiments with 1,236 college students in Nairobi, we implement three incentive levels: no … income. We find that response times - a proxy for cognitive effort - increase by 40% with very high stakes. Performance, on …

choice, students presented within a pre-populated decline decision were almost five percent less likely to accept all … negatively impact enrollment, academic performance, or on-campus work outcomes in the same academic year …

conditional on final exam performance …

enrollment patterns and the academic outcomes of community college students using administrative college-level panel data … covering the universe of students in the 116-college California Community College system. We find that community college … enrolment dropped precipitously in fall 2020 - the total number of enrolled students fell by 4 percent in spring 2020 and by 15 …

instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … sciences and STEM - introductory chemistry labs - at a large public university. The uncommon assignment method of students to … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …