The COVID-19 pandemic led to an abrupt shift from in-person to virtual instruction in the
spring of 2020. We use two complementary difference-in-differences frameworks: one that …

Using data from a rich online student survey collected at an urban college during the
summer of 2020, I estimate the causal impact of the pandemic on students' current and …

I use an unbalanced panel of over 11,000 academic records spanning from Spring 2017 to
Spring 2020 to identify the difference in effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across lower-and …

Nonfinancial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic,
racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic …

To further understand how online teaching and learning can be improved during the COVID-
19 pandemic, a phenomenological study was conducted on 15 educators' experiences of …

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered economic shock waves across the globe. Exploiting
a natural experiment, this paper estimates how being infected with the virus shapes …

We disentangle the channels through which Covid-19 has affected the performance of
university students by setting up an econometric strategy to identify separately changes in …

Despite growing consensus in the public debate that self-discipline is key to succeeding in
an online learning environment, the evidence available is very limited. We investigate the …

One persistent question in higher education is the efficacy of online education. In the fall of
2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required introductory economics course …

Online delivery of higher education has taken center stage but is fraught with issues of
student self-organization. We conducted an RCT to study the effects of remote peer …