Earning your CAP : A Comprehensive Analysis of The University of Texas System's Coordinated Admissions Program

Rodney J. Andrews, John Thompson

The competitive application process is the traditional path to gain access to selective public universities. There is little research on alternative pathways to gain access to selective public universities. In this manuscript, we use the fuzzy regression discontinuity design to study the impact of transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. We find that gaining access via this path has an impact on choice of major, financial aid, and earnings

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Year of publication:	May 2017
Authors:	Andrews, Rodney J.
Other Persons:	Thompson, John (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Hochschule \| Higher education institution \| Studium \| University education \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Bildungschancen \| Equality of opportunity in education \| Studienfinanzierung \| Higher education finance \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Berufswahl \| Occupational choice \| Einkommen \| Income

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w23442
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers.
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w23442 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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