Colleges compete to attract students by investing in amenities such as athletics, dormitories, and student activities … behavior in the context of Big-Time college sports. We resolve the selection issue using data from a large, public university … bottom of the achievement distribution and driven by in-state students and students attending during seasons when the team …

What happens when college students cannot enroll in the courses they want? Using conditional random assignment to … any course in the corresponding subject by 30%. Course shutouts are particularly disruptive for female students, reducing …, shutouts do not appear to be disruptive to male students' long-run outcomes, with one exception--shutouts significantly …

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This … paper uses panel data for two different cohorts that follow students from high school through college and into their post … minority students are substantial, contrary to the anecdotes in play in the media and in the courts …

-optional or test-blind. This paper uses laboratory experiments to examine students' reporting behavior given their application …'s admission cohort. We find that, if students have perfect information about the school's interpretation of non-reporting, test … students do not have perfect information, some test-optional policies can generate more diversity than test-required, because …

An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …

We study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students' college enrollment … in students' local college options, with White, Hispanic, and rural students having, on average, many fewer nearby … options than their Black, Asian, suburban, and urban peers. We then show that students are sensitive to the distance they must …

We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U … socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a … large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these …

We analyze admissions and transcript records for students at multiple Ivy-Plus colleges to study the relationship … academic outcomes with a normalized slope four times greater than that from high school GPA, all conditional on students' race … college performance for students from less advantaged backgrounds. Collectively these results suggest that standardized test …