students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …

students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …

better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …

, graduation rates of minorities increased by 4.4%. We characterize conditions required for better matching of students to campuses … graduation gains experienced by less-prepared students. At the same time, better matching only explains about 20% of the overall … graduation rate increase. Changes after Prop 209 in the selectivity of enrolled students explains 34-50% of the increase. Finally …