in India for quot;lower-castequot; groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …

-income students. This implies that there is scope for a policy to redirect loan dollars – and therefore students – from low …

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 …

Students from 4-year colleges often arrive having already done very well in high school, but by the end of first term …, a wide dispersion of performance emerges, with an especially large lower tail. Students that do well in first year (we … call the top 10 percent Thrivers) tend to continue to do well throughout the rest of their time in university. Students …

This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South … about students that is of common interest to all colleges, lower-ranked colleges can gain in competition with higher …

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 …

earnings of students …

High-achieving, low-income students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than upper-income students with … intervention did not increase aid: rather, students were guaranteed before application the same grant aid that they would qualify … students' college decisions …