High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some … states offer alternative, non-tested pathways to graduation for students who have failed their exit exams. This study …

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low-income … scores. Most students also prefer campuses with students of similar race, income, and high school class rank, but only highly …

of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of seconddecile minority … students decreased, respectively, by 2.4 and 3.3 percentage points. The effect of the change in admissions policy was slightly …

of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change … students. Results show that both fall-to-fall freshmen retention and six-year college graduation of second-decile minority … students decreased, respectively, by 2.4 and 3.3 percentage points. The effect of the change in admissions policy was slightly …

schools that did not have a history of sending students to the flagship campuses. Our analysis reveals an increase in the … likelihood that high schools in non-suburban areas sent students to the flagship campuses, but ultimately little to no equity … schools on the flagship campuses continued to dwarf the population of students from other high schools. Thus, the purported …

. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation between students in the ordering of …