programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PAs) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that 1) male … students were significantly more likely to voluntarily meet with their assigned PA when the PA was also male and 2) these …

centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …

illustrate its application through the case of university students in Scotland and determine the exogeneity of their expenditures … drawing on survey evidence. Students are a particularly useful example as we can analyse the difference in impacts between … individual student groups and how the impacts of students at particular institutions are influenced by the composition of the …

selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

This paper contributes to the economics of examination rules. We show how rational students reallocate their learning …

these choices, as the variety of fields and majors in students' nearest universities vary considerably across locations … Finnish university students who graduated from high school between 1991 and 1996. The study's emphasis is on analyzing to what …

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 …