admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …

We investigate the long-run impact of college remedial education on students' academic performance and employment …

and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students ….e. very high or low levels of average peer ability in a group harm students' grades. These effects are most pronounced for low …-ability students …

school student performance, gender of faculty, and economic returns of majors. Finally, we examine how students' decisions … signals) to impel female students to switch majors …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low …

subsequent exams. Students of lower prior performance have lower fatigue effects and higher warm-up effects in STEM subjects … compared to students of higher prior performance. Also, we find that exam productivity in STEM increases faster for boys than …

volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students' efforts to raise lifetime income and universities' activities to improve teaching quality are …