enrollment among students with low parental income and improve life-cycle earnings outcomes. This paper calculates the elasticity … an overall decrease in mean life-cycle earnings due to students downgrading from 4-year colleges to 2-year colleges …

to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …

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. …

Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … of the importance of credit constraints within this population. I find that students who obtain high school grades just … a four-year college and much less likely to attend a community college than students with grades just below the …

I develop and estimate a structural equilibrium model of the college market. Students, having heterogeneous abilities … only noisy measures of student ability, choose tuition and admissions policies to compete for more able students. Tuition …

the two earliest-adopting states, nearly half of all students were induced into testing, and 40-45% of them earned scores … mandates, with no effect on overall attendance. I conclude that a large number of high-ability students appear to dramatically … human capital investment for a substantial number of students …

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 …

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 …

This paper examines the returns to institutional quality for college transfer students and asks whether the additional … information provided by such students provides insight into the role of human capital accumulation in determining a college …