Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by testing whether public university automatic admissions policies mitigate academic undermatch and...

Im März 2009 einigte sich die Kultusministerkonferenz auf bundeseinheitliche Mindeststandards zur Öffnung der Hochschulen für beruflich qualifizierte Studieninteressierte. In Nordrhein-Westfalen erfolgte die Umsetzung des KMK-Beschlusses im März 2010.Absicht der Studie ist die Ermittlung der...

Applying a differences-in-differences strategy, I study the decentralization of university admission as a natural experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The analysis uses administrative data on all students within...

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...