This paper uses administrative data from the University of Texas-Austin to examine whether the number of same high school classmates at college entry influences college achievement, measured by grade point average (GPA) and persistence. For each freshman cohort from 1993 through 2003 we...

Using 10 years of enrollment data at four Texas public universities, this paper examines whether, to what extent, and in what ways high school attended contributes to racial and ethnic differences in college achievement. Like previous studies, we show that controlling for class rank and test...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between early employment activity and school continuation decisions for American women ages 16 to 24. We formulate a sequential schooling choice model that guides our exploration of these crucial life-cycle decisions. Our estimation strategy takes...