This paper reviews the literature on affirmative action in undergraduate education and law
schools, focusing especially on the trade-off between institutional quality and the fit between …

This article reviews the recent literature on the determinants of college major choices. We
first highlight long-term trends and persistent differences in college major choices by gender …

This article studies the impact of changing job skills on career earnings dynamics for college
graduates. We measure changes in the skill content of occupations between 2007 and 2019 …

Informed by the theoretical lens of opportunity hoarding, this study considers whether STEM
postsecondary fields stand apart via the disproportionate exclusion of Black and Latina/o …

As the workforce has become more educated, educational decisions are about what type of
education to pursue as well as how much to pursue. In college, individuals somewhat …

Proposition 209 banned race-based affirmative action at California public universities in
1998. Using a difference-in-differences research design and a newly constructed …

Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what
college students believe at the time of entrance about their final major, relate these beliefs to …

We show that tenth-grade teacher expectations affect students' likelihood of college
completion. Our approach leverages a unique feature of a nationally representative dataset …

Winner of the George R. Terry Book Award from Academy of Management and the
Outstanding Academic Title Award from CHOICE Magazine Successful management of our …

Background In this paper, we investigate the predictors for enrollment and success in
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs in higher education …