The college experience involves much more than credit hours and degrees. Students likely derive utility from in … come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we elicit students' intended likelihood of enrolling in higher education under … different costs and possible states of the world. These states, which would have been unimaginable in the absence of the …

College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …

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 …

-platform--a feature common to virtually all real-world implementations. These off-platform options generate justified envy, as students …: they allow students to delay their enrollment decision to potentially receive a better offer later, at the cost of waiting … and waiting decisions. We find that waiting costs are large. Yet, by improving students' assignment outcomes relative to a …

admissions system where students submit brief preference lists. Although option value should encourage riskier top choices, many … students are overly cautious and fail to include safer lower-ranked options. We argue that directed cognition--making myopic …-based prediction shows that about 50% of applicants exhibit this pattern, especially among disadvantaged students. Counterfactual …

students from 1999 to 2006, we document and exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment … encountered by students. Within an instrumental variables setup, we examine effects of the policy change on students grouped into … deciles defined by their 8th grade math test scores. First, we find that students took more math courses in high school …

We analyze how admission policies affect stereotypes against students from disadvantaged groups. Many critics of …, eliminating stereotypes perversely requires a higher admission standard for disadvantaged students. If a school seeks both to … treat students equally and limit stereotypes, the optimal admission policy would still impose a higher standard on …

, 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 …

-ability students and in the Northeast. Additionally, we explore how the college preparatory behavior of high school seniors has changed …