As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent evidence on the extent to which students are able to obtain … student credit arrangements that balance three important objectives: (i) providing credit for students to access college and …

federal student loans to students who have received information about financial aid but have not made a borrowing decision. A … treatment reminding students that they need not borrow the maximum amount of available loan aid does not affect borrowing …. Treatments referencing amounts borrowed by recent graduates shift students from borrowing the maximum amount to not borrowing …

and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students … four-year students, and we analyze individuals into their mid-30s. For four-year students, we find that state appropriation … adverse debt outcomes, and these students experience substantial increases in their credit score and in the affluence of the …

process does little to improve the targeting of both student loans and grants, for both dependent and independent students. We …

This paper examines the influence of educational debt aversion on the career choice of law school students, including …