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 …

, we show that this law change had a large negative impact on the college attendance of students with drug convictions. On … enrollment by about two years, and we also present suggestive evidence that affected students were less likely to ever enroll in … college. Students living in urban areas and those whose mothers did not attend college appear to be the most affected by these …

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

One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which money matters for college students is course availability …% of U.S. undergraduates in public colleges and 55% of underrepresented minority students. We use administrative course … admissions created by waitlists, we find that students stuck on a waitlist and shut out of a course section were 25% more likely …

programs' joining the platform led students to start college sooner and raised the share of students who graduated on time. We … students' ranked-ordered applications, on- and off-platform enrollment, and on-time graduation outcomes. When more programs … graduation rates. High-SES students have greater access to off-platform options, and gains from platform expansion are larger for …

to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …

aid could reduce student loan defaults without restricting prospective students' access to higher education. We examine …, market enrollment declines by just 3 percent. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to enroll in …

for in-state students, the in-kind format of the aid an resulting price gap between public and private colleges could also …, quality, and distance influence college decisions, I examine the impact of several dissimilar state subsidy regimes and … pattern of state subsidies strongly influence decisions. When in-kind subsidies are large, students appear to choose public …

of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that … the effects of the largest student employment subsidy program--Federal Work-Study (FWS)--for a broad range of participants … hours worked and improves academic outcomes, but has little impact on future employment. For students who would not have …