The quickly growth of the (quasi-) experimental literature on policy interventions in higher
education provides an opportunity to identify the causal effects of these interventions on …

The provision of grant aid is important to students' postsecondary opportunities and success.
It is well established that grant aid increases the probability of enrollment in postsecondary …

We construct publicly available statistics on parents' incomes and students' earnings
outcomes for each college in the United States using deidentified data from tax records …

We characterize intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using
data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013. We document four results. First …

High-achieving, low-income students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than
upperincome students with similar achievement. Behavioral biases, intensified by …

High-achieving, low-income students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than upper-
income students with similar achievement. Behavioral biases, intensified by complexity 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 …

We use the introduction of the Texas Top Ten Percent rule to estimate the effect of access to
a selective college on graduation and earnings outcomes for two groups of students. For …

Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a
monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is …

Prior research finds that low‐income students are less likely to apply to and enroll in four‐
year colleges or more selective colleges, even after controlling for academic preparation …