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

students responded to the release of the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard in September 2015. We find that data … on annual cost and graduation rate, both of which were previously available, did not impact the volume of score sends … received by colleges. By contrast, we estimate that each 10 percent increase in reported earnings resulted in a 2.4 percent …

We develop a model of college assignment as a large contest wherein students with heterogeneous abilities compete for … approximate the outcomes of a game with large, but finite, sets of colleges and students. By incorporating two common families of … to a loss of $91,795 in NPV of lifetime earnings …

students in Korea. The Korean government limits the number of admission slots at each college by assigning a binding quota for … each year. An increase in the quota admits more academically marginal students to college. The Instrumental Variables (IV …-year college attendance of marginal students increases their hourly wage by 68.5%. College education also increases fringe bene ts …

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 …

, many students fail to complete their degrees, and few invest in majors with the highest earnings potential such as those in … STEM fields. To help students navigate the complexities of college, policymakers are increasingly advocating for the use of … quality of advising impacts students' success. This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of college advisor …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …