informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students …. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt more supported during the college application process and applied more … intermediate outcomes were larger for the types of students we anticipated would most need additional support during the college …

bias. In this paper, we develop an empirical test that attempts to circumvent this problem. We assume that students who are …

experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The … analysis uses administrative data on all students within Germany and complements the prominent theoretical literature on …

This study investigates the impact of a low-cost, color-coded scale intervention designed to inform university students … about the expected workload for a course, with the aim of improving students’ academic performance and learning behaviors … semester. Students who were treated once experienced no significant effect, but those who additionally received the second …

admissions system where students submit brief preference lists. Although option value should encourage riskier top choices, many … students are overly cautious and fail to include safer lower-ranked options. We argue that directed cognition--making myopic …-based prediction shows that about 50% of applicants exhibit this pattern, especially among disadvantaged students. Counterfactual …

role models on female preferences for STEM majors. We conduct a randomized control trial where female senior students … selected high schools. We find that exposure to this treatment increases high ability female students' preferences for … engineering programs by 14 percentage points. The effect is only statistically significant for the subgroup of female students …