We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

-related classes affects major changes. We also control for other factors that may affect a student’s final major including: high … school student performance, gender of faculty, and economic returns of majors. Finally, we examine how students’ decisions … signals) to impel female students to switch majors. …

support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …

centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …

Drawing on data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we show that students who select majors that …

This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and … measure of student-to-degree match employing minimal assumptions. We find that students who are the first in the family to … contrast, only the highest achieving female students relatively undermatch. These gaps are larger at the application stage. We …