There is widespread concern, both in the private and public sectors, about perceived declines in U.S. college graduates in STEM fields. In our sample, the proportion of science majors has remained steady over the sample period; however, the number entering our college intending to major in STEM...

Public hospitals have been important providers of health care for Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured. In this paper, public hospitals are modeled as a public subsidy to health care providers for providing care to the uninsured. However, a possible cost of this type of provision is that by...

This paper uses data on roommates from two different selective institutions to investigate the effect of peers on first-year performance, with a specific focus on the underlying mechanism. We compare measures of academic ability across student sub-groups by race, income, and gender, and across...

The annual U.S. News and World Report Guide to America's Best Colleges is a much anticipated magazine among both high-ability prospective students and college and university administrators. In this paper we use a decade of Colgate University Admitted Student Questionnaire surveys to estimate the...