For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of U.S. higher education markets. Students who … default than students attending similarly selective public schools. Because for-profit schools tend to serve students from …-profit institutions. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given …

the probability of being chronically absent by about three percentage points (21%). For black students, random assignment … students' attendance habits. …

financial motivations for and the effects of employment on U.S. college students' academic performance. The data confirm the … hours students work while in school, although students are not very responsive to these financial motivations. They also …

In this paper we analyse whether the characteristics of university teaching staff matter with regards students …' performance and interest in the discipline. We use data on about one thousand students enrolled on the first level degree course … in Business and Economics at a medium sized Italian University. Thanks to the random assignment of students to different …