We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …

networks with different origins of international students, income growth, and exchange-rate fluctuations. Contrary to claims … that US-born students are crowded out, I find that international students increase schools' funding via tuition payments … recruit more students with high math scores. Lastly, states allocate more appropriations to universities that attract fewer …

-related classes affects major changes. We also control for other factors that may affect a student’s final major including: high … school student performance, gender of faculty, and economic returns of majors. Finally, we examine how students’ decisions … signals) to impel female students to switch majors. …

robust evidence that Chinese students make disproportionate contributions to the scientific output of their advisors and … departments. We attribute this result to a selection effect as it is relatively more difficult for Chinese students to gain …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …