colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

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 …

students in the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the country. Enrollment dropped … precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and by … another 7 percent from fall 2020 to fall 2021. The California Community College system lost nearly 300,000 students over this …

first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students ́computer skills and may increase the …

Paying for college is often a family affair, with both parents and students contributing. We study the effects of … records. We provide the first comprehensive analysis of how both students and their parents use debt with college attendance …