The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges. NBER Working Paper No. 15446.

By C. Hoxby. 2009

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The Impact of Tuition Increases on Enrollment at Public Colleges and Universities (2011, background): “More generally, Hoxby (2009) found that student quality, tuition, and subsidies have stratified markedly across institutions ranked by quality.”
Differences by Degree: Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales (2011, unknown): “Again, this is a weakness that we share with the existing literature although there is a small literature on the effect of attending an elite college in the US (see, for example, Hoxby (2009)).”
Student Portfolios and the College Admissions Problem (2014, background): “Even applicants with perfect SAT scores have no better than a 50% chance of getting into schools like Harvard, MIT and Princeton (Avery, Glickman, Hoxby, and Metrick, 2004). So it is not surprising that most applicants construct thoughtful portfolios that include both “safety” and “stretch” schools.”
Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas. NBER Working Paper No. 18068. (2012, background): “Of course, major selection is itself endogenous, and we are hesitant to draw too strong a conclusion from Figure 6 because our controls may not be sufficient to account for the selection of students into majors across schools.(28) But, these estimates are suggestive that both quality of the school a”
The Advanced Placement Arms Race and the Reproduction of Educational Inequality (2013, background): “…increasing number of qualified applicants, they naturally respond by selecting those students who are superior in academic performance (Alon, 2009; Hoxby, 2009) as well as those students who can present a coherent and unique narrative about themselves and their abilities (Stevens, 2007).3 As I…”
Race, income, and enrollment patterns in highly selective colleges, 1982-2004 (2012, background): “2 go to good schools and less willing to attend schools that they perceive as being poorly resourced or having less academically-able peers (Hoxby, 2009).”
The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes (2017, unknown): “Costs significantly influence college choice, and as a result college markets in Colombia today tend to resemble the regional autarkies observed in the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s (Hoxby (1997, 2009)).”
Race and Stratification in College Enrollment Over Time (2018, background): “Students who attend more-selective colleges enjoy larger tuition subsidies, more-generous college resources, and more faculty attention (Hoxby, 2009; Hoxby & Avery, 2012).”
The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom (2012, unknown): “In Panel A, we estimate poisson regressions of the number of applications at four-year institutions by sector, where the control variables are the same as those in equation (2) in addition to MSA fixed effects.(22) Each column is a separate regression, and we find that each $10,000 increase in home ”
Access Without Equity (2012, background): “Since then, academic escalation has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish academically qualified applicants to top-tier institutions from one another, such that we are approaching ceiling effects for key measures of academic quality such as grades and test scores (Hoxby, 2009).”