We estimate whether students update their college application portfolios in response to large, unanticipated information shocks generated by the release of SAT scores -- a primary component of admissions decisions. Exploiting new population data on the timing of college selection and a policy...

As college education has become one of the leading export industries in the U.S., issues related to international students have attracted increasing attention. In this paper, we investigate potential explanations for the recent expansion in enrollments of undergraduate international students,...

We propose an easily computable measure called the Major Complexity Index (MCI) that captures the latent skills taught in different majors. By applying the Method of Reflections to the major-to-occupation network, we construct a scalar measure of the relative complexity of majors. Our measure...

UnivProd is a dataset that quantifies two key production measures for universities: research (academic publications) and education (graduated students). It combines data from three primary sources: Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), the Delta cost project, and Chetty et al. income tax data. Two...