This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students ́probability to enroll at university … requirements. Based on administrative data covering all students, the empirical analysis is carried out by applying a difference …

enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher … average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The evidence points to students making pre-college choices that caused … this divergence. Using linked survey-administrative data, we present evidence consistent with students being averse to …