College Access and Success
Journal Articles
Rational ignorance in education: A field experiment in student plagiarismJournal of Human Resources, 47(2), pp. 397-434. 2012.
Do college instructors matter? The effects of adjuncts on students' interests and successReview of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.
Effects of failing a high school Exit Exam on course‐taking, achievement, persistence, and graduationEducation Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 32(4), pp. 498-520. 2010.
Addressing the needs of under-prepared students in Higher Education: Does college remediation work? Journal of Human Resources, 44(3), pp. 736-771. 2009.
Do faculty serve as role models? The impact of instructor gender on female studentsAmerican Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 95(2), pp. 152-157. 2005.
Remediation at the Community College: Student participation and outcomesNew Directions for Community Colleges, Number 129, pp. 17-26. 2005.
Teen drinking and educational attainment: Evidence from Two-Sample Instrumental Variables (TSIV) estimatesJournal of Labor Economics, 21(1), pp. 178-209. 2003.
Who loses HOPE? Attrition from Georgia's College Scholarship ProgramSouthern Economic Journal, 66(2), pp. 379-390. 1999.
Books: Books, Chapters, Reviews
College Admission Testing in AmericaIn Stead, V. (Ed.), International Perspectives in Higher Education Admission Policy: A reader, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Forthcoming.
To be or not to be: Major choices in budding scientistsIn C. Clotfelter (Ed.), American Universities in a Global Market, University of Chicago Press, pp. 69-98. 2010.
Assessing the college contribution to civic engagementIn M.S. McPherson & M.O. Schapiro (Eds.), Succeeding in College: What It Means and How to Make it Happen, College Board, New York, 2008.
The increasing use of Adjunct Instructors at public institutions: Are we hurting students?In R.Ehrenberg (Ed.), Assessing Public Higher Education at the Start of the 21st Century, 2006.
Buying Ohioans loyalty? How state financial aid affects brain drainIn S. Shane (Ed.), Creating Enterprise: University-Government Partnerships to Promote Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
Is the finish line in sight? Financial Aid's impact on retention and graduationIn C. M. Hoxby (Ed.), College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay For It, Chicago University Press and NBER, 2004.
From high school to college: Improving opportunities for success in postsecondary education. Michael W. Kirst, Andrea Venezia. Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, pp. 448. 2004.
Comment on "Peer Effects in Higher Education" by G. Winston and D. ZimmermannIn C. Hoxby (Ed), College Decisions: How Students Make Them and How They Could, University of Chicago Press, pp. 421-423. 2004.
Working Papers
The role of simplification and information in college decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA experimentNBER Working Paper No. 15361, 2012.
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoringNBER Working Paper No. 16881, 2011.
The Political and Policy Dynamics of K-12 Education Reform from 1965 to 2010: Implications for Changing Postsecondary EducationResearch Priorities for Broad-Access Higher Education, 2010.
