. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

Low-income students, even those with strong academic credentials, are unlikely to attend a highly selective college …. With a field experiment, we test an intervention to increase enrollment of low-income students at the highly selective … University of Michigan. We contact students (as well as their parents and principals) with an encouragement to apply and a …

Forty years ago, 96% of six-year-old children were enrolled in first grade or above. As of 2005, the figure was just 84 … in the age of legal school entry intensify socioeconomic differences in educational attainment, since lower-income … children are at greater risk of dropping out of school when they reach the legal age of school exit …