The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students … survey students about what their expected earnings would be both in the major they have chosen and in counterfactual majors …. We also elicit students' subjective assessments of their abilities in chosen and counterfactual majors. We estimate a …

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 …

We argue that once we take into account the students’ rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the … student’s choice of school. This necessary condition for mismatch provides the basis for a new test. The test is implemented … information that is a statistically significant predictor of students’ post-enrollment academic performance. Further, this private …