This article investigates determinants of the number of four-year colleges to which students apply and how the number …: the adoption rate of the Common Application near a student’s home. I find that applying to one additional college … increases students’ likelihood of enrollment, but only for those applying to very few colleges. Going from one to two …

Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less-lucrative fields … stratification at public research universities, many of which increasingly enforce GPA restriction policies that prohibit students …, which matches observational patterns and can be explained by URM students’ poorer average pre-college academic preparation …

-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best … assign, on average, lower grades and conjectured that female students exhibit stronger aversion to low grades, hence their … attachment to the field. A key implication is that categories of students who attach high importance to pecuniary benefits of …

outcomes between richer and poorer students who leave school with good attainment levels. From a set of policies aimed at … targets the supply side by enforcing universities to give preferential admission to poorer students who graduate near the top … of their secondary school class. This policy would substantially narrow earnings gaps between richer and poorer students …

, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …