lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation. Participants attend …-in-discontinuity design, we show that the program raises students' first-year GPA by 14.6% of a standard deviation, and decreases the … probability of first-year dropout by 8.5 percentage points. Effects are concentrated among lower-income students who also …

support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …

university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …

policy fails to incentivize students from a disadvantaged socioeconomic background it may lead to a deterioration in the …