Professional internships during college are a popular and often highly promoted activity among students. A major issue … with estimating the impacts of these programs is that students often take time away from their classes to participate, and … 442,000 students at 619 institutions of higher education in the United States, we are able to estimate the impacts of …

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …

Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the … students' drop out decisions as well as later labor market outcomes. Overall, we find that a one standard deviation increase in … for lower ability students. …

A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …