Derek Rury
Out-of-State Enrollment, Financial Aid and Academic Outcomes: Evidence from Wisconsin
Tags: Higher educationScholars disagree about the effect out-of-state university students have on potential in-state students. Despite paying a premium to attend state universities, researchers argue that out-of-state students may come at a cost to in-state students by negatively affecting academic quality or by… more →
Student Demand For Relative Performance Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Topics: Student LearningTags: Motivation, Higher educationWe administer a survey to study students' preferences for relative performance feedback in an introductory economics class. To do so, we elicit students' willingness to pay for/avoid learning their rank on a midterm exam. Our results show that 10% of students are willing to pay to avoid learning… more →
Putting the K in Rank: How Kindergarten Classrooms Impact Short and Long-Run Outcomes
Topics: Student LearningA student's class rank has important short and long-term effects on important educational outcomes. Despite our growing understanding of these rank effects, we still do not know how early in a child's academic career they begin. To address this, I use data from the Tennessee STAR project, which… more →
Tightening the Leaky Pipeline(s): The Role of Beliefs About Ability in STEM Major Choice
Tags: Higher educationTo study beliefs about ability and STEM major choice, I conduct a field experiment where I provide students with information that they are above average in their top fields of study. I find that STEM students are more likely to switch out of their major and that non-STEM students fail to switch… more →