Small Differences That Matter: Mistakes in Applying to College

By Amanda Pallais. Journal of Labor Economics, 2015

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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students (2013, unknown): “We especially note the work of Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson (2009), Dillon and Smith (2012), and Pallais (2009).”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, unknown): “Either circumstance may drive students to make important choices that are haphazard (Radford, 2013); based on simple rules of thumb (Pallais, 2015); or based on other factors that are not a good basis for decision making, such as the desire to avoid onerous applications or attend an institution…”
Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities (2015, unknown): “Pallais (2013) finds that after allowing students to send four reports for free, less than 20 percent of ACT takers sent three test score reports and more than 70 percent sent exactly four reports, suggesting that the default number of free reports dominated student application behavior.”
What works to reduce inequalities in higher education? A systematic review of the (quasi-)experimental literature on outreach and financial aid (2019, unknown): “ This change in the default option for applications mainly benefited low‐income students who were able to enroll in more selective colleges (Pallais, 2013).”
The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School: Determinants and Wage Effects (2015, unknown): “Informational issues are also studied in Pallais (2015) who examined how college application and enrollment”
Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion (2017, background): “…Hoxby and Avery 2013; Smith, Pender, and Howell 2013) and that initial college choices can be altered by relatively low-cost interventions (Bettinger et al. 2012; Carrell and Sacerdote 2013; Hoxby and Turner 2013; Castleman, Page, and Schooley 2014; Pallais 2015; Smith, Hurwitz, and Howell 2015).”
Student Portfolios and the College Admissions Problem (2014, background): “(3)Steinberg (2010) reported that colleges who waived application fees saw applications skyrocket.”