How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We …

While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …

significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students … Academy in which students are randomly assigned to certain courses either during or after the semester in which they are … required to select their college major. We find that when students are assigned to a course in the same semester as they select …

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

Abstract The new millennium brought with it a new challenge. Students reaching higher education were not only greater … severely scarce economic resources, but the Ministry of Education designed a plan to keep students in higher education and ….4%), and the average duration of a student’s gap in enrollment decreased 0.2 semesters (impact of 14.4%). …

migration varies considerably across cities, and there is significant heterogeneity for students from universities of different … important role in raising the probability of staying. College education increased the students' interaction with the local …