TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lincove, Jane Arnold
AU  - Cortes, Kalena E.
        TI  - Match or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and High-Income Students
        PY  - 2016/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10150
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10150
        AB  - 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 low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low-income students who are less college-ready are not influenced by admissions certainty and are sensitive to college entrance exams scores. Most students also prefer campuses with students of similar race, income, and high school class rank, but only highly-qualified low-income students choose institutions where they have fewer same-race and same-income peers.
        KW  - automatic admissions
KW  - Texas Top 10% Plan
KW  - academic undermatching and overmatching
KW  - social matching
KW  - admissions policies
        ER  -