State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …

individual student. We show that in a heterogeneous population of students and a heterogeneous set of colleges, there is no … unique pattern or factor for all students to thrive in the same college. We define and quantify the concepts of …

Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at … of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly … that students enter school quite optimistic about obtaining a science degree, but that relatively few students end up …

families? I present new evidence on this important question using data from two loan programs for college students in Chile …. Both programs offer loans to students who score above a threshold on the national college admission test, enabling a … regression discontinuity evaluation design. I find that students who score just above the cutoff have nearly 20 percentage points …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …