-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. …

There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates … than white students with similar academic qualifications. However, there have been few empirical investigations of this … American and white students to a subset of selective U.S. institutions over five application cycles, beginning with the 2015 …

,000 former students in their early- to mid-20s. Half of participants assigned to the treatment group were offered the opportunity …

We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level …

low-income students at an elite public university. We find that the program increased four-year graduation rates by about … 8 percentage points for eligible students in the cohorts who experienced the fully developed program. For these cohorts … performance. We conclude that aid programs targeting low-income, high-ability students are most successful when they couple grant …

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 …