Today’s university students are drawn from a highly diverse set of backgrounds. Students appear in various guises as … employment. In many countries students are paying more for their university education, and expect high levels of standards and … service. Universities are institutions with multiple roles, and must balance the needs and demands of their students with the …

I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which funding levels impact college students is course ….S. undergraduates and over half of minority students in public colleges. The impacts of course availability in this setting may be … reliance on state funding. Across a range of bandwidths, we find that students stuck on a waitlist and shut out of a course …