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 rec
Dynamic treatment regimes are treatment allocations tailored to heterogeneous individuals (e.g., via previous outcomes and covariates). The optimal dynamic treatment regime is a regime that maximizes
We examine the association between studying science in higher secondary school and labor market earnings in India. Studying science in high school is associated with 22% greater earnings than studying
We develop a model of optimal schooling investments and estimate it using new data on approximately 700 identical twins. We estimate an average return to schooling of 9 percent for identical twins, bu
