(baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …

readiness in mathematics among low-income high school students. Within-school course taking patterns in math are examined for … the same students from 3rd through 12th grade, conditional on previous grade math scores and socioeconomic status, using … within schools; ii) conditional on previous scores, do students in these classes advance faster; and iii) conditional on …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

Since the spring of 2021, nearly 700 colleges and universities in the U.S. have mandated that their students become …

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 …

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher … students who can be expected to work abroad after graduation with high probability. This paper analyzes whether and how student …, this points into the direction that the larger the share of foreign students among all students in a country, the more a …

Working has become commonplace among college students; however, this activity can have unexpected financial … consequences. Federal formulas implicitly tax the amount of financial aid students are eligible to receive by as much as 50 cents … for each marginal dollar of income. This tax creates an incentive for college students to reduce income, though abstruse …