elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of funding as a control group, and … administrative records before and after the reform, we present evidence that students most likely to attend college in a future are … affected in different ways. First, we show that parents of students who ex ante were more likely to be credit restricted became …

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 …