Determinants of the Match between Student Ability and College Quality

By E. Dillon, Jeffrey A. Smith. Journal of Labor Economics, 2017

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The Demand for Effective Charter Schools (2018, unknown): “These possibilities are consistent with a growing body of evidence suggesting that lowerincome students are less likely to choose high-quality schools in a variety of settings (Hastings et al. 2006; Brand and Xie 2010; Hoxby and Avery 2012; Butler et al. 2013; Dillon and Smith 2017).”
Closing the Gap: The Effect of a Targeted, Tuition-Free Promise on College Choices of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students (2018, background): “Hoxby and Avery (2012) and Dillon and Smith (2017) find that the main driver of mismatch is application choices rather than admissions decisions.”
Race and Stratification in College Enrollment Over Time (2018, background): “These two factors have been found to be related to undermatching (Dillon & Smith, 2017; Smith, Pender, & Howell, 2013), in which a student enrolls in a college that is less selective than one might expect given the student’s academic background (Bowen & Bok, 1998; Rod-erick, Nagaoka, Coca, &…”