Yes, You Can! Effects of Transparent Admission Standards on High School Track Choice: A Randomized Field Experiment.
High school track choice determines college access in many countries. We hypothesize that some qualified students avoid the college-bound track in high school simply because they overestimate admission requirements. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a randomized field experiment that communicate...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 341 - 369 |
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Sep2022
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