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View article: Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Marginal Returns to Public Universities Open
This paper studies the returns to enrolling in American public universities by comparing the long-term outcomes of barely admitted versus barely rejected applicants. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universitie…
View article: Community Colleges and Upward Mobility
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility Open
Two-year community colleges enroll nearly half of all first-time undergraduates in the United States, but to ambiguous effect: low persistence rates and the potential for diverting students from 4-year institutions cast ambiguity over 2-ye…
View article: Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94
Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94 Open
High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educ…
View article: On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making
On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making Open
The decisions of judges, lenders, journal editors, and other gatekeepers often lead to significant disparities across affected groups.An important question is whether, and to what extent, these group-level disparities are driven by relevan…