We empirically examine whether there is discernable variation in the matriculation patterns of low-income students at …, low-income students with need-based aid. While enrollment responses cannot be attributed to these programs, we do find …-distant students. These findings imply that "improved" access may actually displace some needy students in favor of others. -- Low …

-term attrition from higher education differ for students who initially enrolled part-time as compared to for students who initially …, academic performance, parental education, household characteristics, and economic factors had a substantially greater impact on … compared with at-risk part-time students. -- college enrollment ; college dropout ; part-time enrollment …

Education researchers have long made inferences about grade retention from the grade distribution of same-aged students …

Many male and first-generation college-goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring … programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PAs) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that 1) male …

How did the introduction of the Bachelor-degree system affect students in Germany? Combining rich data on university … students with administrative data on universities' study programs, we exploit variation in the timing of Bachelor …-degree implementation across departments. To account for endogeneity in students' enrollment decisions, we apply an instrumental …

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based … on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings …

Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring … programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the … experiment in which peer advisors (PA) were quasi-randomly assigned to first-year university students to show that: (i) male …

students from first-year courses (𝑁 = 6954) was offered large incentives (worth AUD 55,000) to attend PASS, which increased … was larger (0.89) for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that one hour of … estimate is not statistically significant, reflecting limited statistical power. The estimated effect is largest for students …

readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 … weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for …

More than 4.4 million students enrolled in US public schools participate in English language learner programs because … of linguistic barriers to learning in regular classrooms. Whether native language instruction should be used in these … bilingual education programs (which use some native language instruction) and English-only programs are not significantly …