persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to instructors for identification … institutional withdrawal for the students in our sample, which is in turn linked to lower likelihood of returning the following … semester. Our findings reinforce the importance of academic momentum: remaining in a course keeps students attached to college …

-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are sensitive to the distance they must travel to access public colleges … and universities, but there are heterogeneous effects across students – particularly with regard to distance to public two …-year colleges (i.e., community colleges). White, Asian, and higher-income students who live in a community college desert (i.e., at …

We study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students' college enrollment … in students' local college options, with White, Hispanic, and rural students having, on average, many fewer nearby … options than their Black, Asian, suburban, and urban peers. We then show that students are sensitive to the distance they must …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …

A model is presented where universities competitively supply education to mobile students. Students are subject to a …-related debt relief, however, the equilibrium quality of education is inefficiently low. This is because students reduce their …

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

I study a college-admissions model with two need-blind colleges and heterogeneous students. In a game in which colleges … worse off but make all students and the other college better off …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students …

discontinuity design. Loan programs induce students to pursue college degrees that are more expensive and prolonged relative to … education when students are about 30 years old. The college premium seems to increase over time, possibly offsetting the initial …