Showing high-achieving college applicants past admissions outcomes increases undermatching
More than 40% of US high school students have access to Naviance, a proprietary tool designed to guide college search and application decisions.
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Italy: Tutoring Online Program (TOP): A Successful Global Experience
The "Tutoring Online Program" (TOP), launched in Italy in 2020, is an online educational reinforcement tutoring program that offered support to high school students affected by the pandemic.
Glass Walls: Experimental Evidence on Constraints faced by Women in Accessing Valuable Skilling Opportunities
Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training centers are four times more likely to access valued skilling opp
A serious case for dynamic scoring
Everyone from Mitt Romney to Barack Obama to Hilary Clinton to Marco Rubio to Donald Trump has voiced support for the idea that we should make green cards more easily available to foreign-born STEM gr
The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants
There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students with similar academic qualifications.
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges.
Online Social Network Effects in Labor Markets: Evidence from Facebook's Entry to College Campuses
Using quasi-random variation from Facebook's entry to college campuses, I exploit a natural experiment to estimate the effect of online social network access on future earnings.
An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity
Hybrid organizations must sustainably attend to multiple goals embedded in different institutional spheres.
Cancel culture: Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark
There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship from intolerant zealots involving ‘woke wars’ and a ‘cancel cult
Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France.
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