-state students. Unlike many similar programs at other public universities, financial eligibility for BTP depends solely on a family … transparent for students and their families and thereby to encourage application and matriculation. We investigate the … marginal group of BTP-eligible students who lack Federal Pell Grant eligibility. With this analysis, we aim to motivate a …

completion and earnings for all students. We find evidence of meaningful complementarity between student ability and college … students to higher quality colleges …

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 …

completion and earnings. These patterns imply that, on average, students benefit from "overmatch" of the sort generated by … move lower ability students to higher quality colleges. …

completion and earnings for all students. We find evidence of meaningful complementarity between student ability and college … students to higher quality colleges …

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 …