connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school … affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions. Merging administrative data from a top-10 U.S. business school with … within 15 years of graduation. Next, we use the exogenous assignment of students into sections to show that a larger …

Leveraging rich data on the universe of Texas high school graduates, we estimate how the relationship between …-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are sensitive to the distance they must travel to access public colleges … and universities, but there are heterogeneous effects across students – particularly with regard to distance to public two …

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 find substantial differences in college applications for students who have equal college opportunities and prior … achievement but vary in distance to the nearest selective and non-selective college. Students who live closer to a selective …

study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based … on variation in the local field of study availability, we provide evidence that students who are not enrolled in their … impact on dropout is particularly strong among students of low socio-economic status and is driven by lower academic …

Grade-based performance measures are often relied on when considering the efficacy of education-related policy … of treatment heterogeneity, attenuating measured responses to treatment among high-performing students, for example, or … inflating measured responses among low-performing students. …

study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based … on variation in the local field of study availability, we provide evidence that students who are not enrolled in their … impact on dropout is particularly strong among students of low socio-economic status and is driven by lower academic …

education studies will represent an attractive alternative for young people as opposed to advanced further training if such dual …

students, and significant differences in student progress due to fields of study. …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …