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

Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …

Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and achieve better outcomes? In theory, setting goals … can help present-biased students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, there is little credible evidence on … the causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved …

experienced by students outside of school. Chronic stress – due to neighborhood violence, poverty, or family instability – can …, can affect whether performance on standardized tests is a valid measure of students' actual ability. We collect data on … students' stress responses using cortisol samples provided by low-income students in New Orleans. We measure how their cortisol …

propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts. The key feature of the model is that colleges want to admit students … who are enthusiastic about attending, and early admissions programs give students an opportunity to signal this enthusiasm …

Each year, thousands of students graduate high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately … one-third of entering postsecondary students require remedial or developmental work before entering college-level courses … and English remediation using a unique dataset of approximately 28,000 students. To account for selection biases, the …

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 … disadvantaged backgrounds, it is important to isolate the causal effect of for-profit enrollment on educational and labor market …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor%u2019s degree, but were 39 … at first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students …

We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. Our identification strategy relies on the random … assignment of students to teaching classes. We find that a one standard deviation increase in class-size results in a 0 …