We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … disadvantaged versus advantaged high schools. Ireland provides an interesting laboratory for this analysis as applicants provide a … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have …

chooses a science major and on his or her cumulative GPA. Conversely, students who attend campuses with stronger peers in the … sciences are less likely to graduate with a science degree. Weaker, non-minority students typically react to stronger peers in …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …