/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …

-based admissions practices and the effect such preferences have on the quality of schools in which minority students enroll, graduation … argue these bans are very informative about how affirmative action affects URM students. Finally, we discuss the evidence on …

-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that these matching effects are … of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred specification. Further …, universities appear to have responded to Prop 209 by investing more in their students, explaining between 23-64% of the graduation …

no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …

We argue that once we take into account the students' rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the … possess private information about students' post-enrollment treatment effects. This necessary condition for mismatch provides … private information that is a statistically significant predictor of the students' post-enrollment academic performance. We …

more students at not-for-profits earn a BA, making them less likely to have only an Associate's degree. There is …

ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine …