Jonathan Smith

Nov 3, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Carycruz Bueno |Lindsay Page |Jonathan Smith

IntroductionOver the past three decades, published “sticker” prices of college have increased faster than inflation in all sectors of higher education. For example, from 1991 to 2021, average list tuition and fees to attend a public, 4-year institution increased 158% (from $4,160 to $10,740 annually). Such trends have fueled the perception that the United States is facing a crisis of college affordability (Heinrich, 2017), especially for students not from high-income backgrounds.

Feb 23, 2024 | iza.org | D’Wayne Bell |John Holbein |Jonathan Smith |Samuel J. Imlay

We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies systematically by the college's attributes (e.g. increasing with selectivity) but also that seemingly similar colleges can have markedly different voting rates.

Feb 22, 2024 | brookings.edu | Ashley Edwards |Justin C. Ortagus |Jonathan Smith |Andria Smythe

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which comprise only three percent of postsecondary education institutions, are on the minds of hundreds of thousands of Black Americans who graduate from high school each year. Among 1.2 million Black SAT takers who graduated from high school between 2004 and 2010, almost 40 percent applied to at least one HBCU and nearly 16 percent attended an HBCU.

Dec 12, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Jing Feng |John Holbein |Jonathan Smith |D’Wayne Bell

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