schools on students' choice of college major and early career outcomes. Utilizing rich longitudinal data from Maryland, we … course increases students' likelihood of declaring a CS major by 10 percentage points and receiving a CS BA degree by 5 … percentage points. Additionally, access to CS coursework raises students' likelihood of being employed and early career earnings …

schooling utility and wages. Our framework accounts for heterogeneity in college types and majors, as well as occupational … search frictions and work hours. Individuals learn from grades and wages in a correlated manner, and may change their choices … would increase further by 2 percentage points in the absence of search frictions. Providing students with full information …

tuition fees, with contextual admission for disadvantaged students. An alternative admission channel admits lower …-ability students subject to substantial selection-fees, retained by the under-funded schools. We combine a cumulative multiple … insignificantly different from zero, for students who barely made it into the more selective school. However, the effect of attending …

, low-income students are found to increase their earnings by 26% ten years later. However, admission has a small and … insignificant effect on high-income students. The difference between income groups is not explained by educational attainment …