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 …

Roughly 25 percent of first-year college students do not return for a second year. This has led to a range of policies …

College success requires students to engage with their institution academically and administratively. Missteps with …-based chatbot that proactively reached out to students to support navigation of administrative processes and use of campus resources … targeting college students to formulate testable hypotheses about their effective use for promoting college success …

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 …

. This paper attempts to fill this void using a unique dataset of students at public, four-year colleges in Ohio. The paper … quantifies how adjunct and graduate assistant instructors affect the likelihood of enrollment and success in subsequent courses …. Because students with alternative instructors may differ systematically from other students, the paper uses two empirical …

This paper examines how the growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in graduate programs affects native … enrollment in those programs. Although there is little evidence of a crowdout effect for the typical native student, the impact … of foreign students on native educational outcomes differs dramatically across ethnic groups, and is particularly adverse …

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 …

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 …