Mumford, Kevin J.; Patterson, Richard W.; Yim, Anthony … - 2024
What happens when college students are not able to enroll in the courses they want? We use a natural experiment at … Purdue University in which first-year students are conditionally randomly assigned to oversubscribed courses. Compared to … students who are assigned a requested course, those who are shut out are 40% less likely to ever take the oversubscribed course …