the two earliest-adopting states, nearly half of all students were induced into testing, and 40-45% of them earned scores … mandates, with no effect on overall attendance. I conclude that a large number of high-ability students appear to dramatically … human capital investment for a substantial number of students …

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …

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 …

role models on female preferences for STEM majors. We conduct a randomized control trial where female senior students … selected high schools. We find that exposure to this treatment increases high ability female students' preferences for … engineering programs by 14 percentage points. The effect is only statistically significant for the subgroup of female students …

from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK university, we examine how students assess their own and their peers …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … manipulated and students are randomly assigned to these groups. Boys tend to postpone their dropout decision when surrounded by … effects on achievement. This in spite of the fact that students' perceptions of the behavior of themselves and their peers are …