persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to instructors for identification … institutional withdrawal for the students in our sample, which is in turn linked to lower likelihood of returning the following … semester. Our findings reinforce the importance of academic momentum: remaining in a course keeps students attached to college …

are extremely low, especially among low-income students. Much of the existing policy and research attention to this issue …-academic obstacles might be key drivers of dropout rates for students living with the burden of poverty. This study examines the impact … of a comprehensive case management intervention that is designed specifically to help low-income students overcome the …

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …