-time graduation rates. Event study analyses show that these negative effects persist well beyond the transition. Using detailed …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

returns (defined as the average earnings of a college graduate relative to a non-college worker in the population), while 61 …

four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college …