Spending on big-time college athletics is often justified on the grounds that athletic success attracts students and …

In this study, we examined the association between girls%u2019 participation in high school sports and the physical … activity, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls%u2019 sports participation … sports, a proxy for expanded athletic opportunities for adolescent females, were associated with an increase in physical …

rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … 2018, we find that the rent-sharing effectively transfers resources away from students who are more likely to be black and …

-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 …