The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

Caroline M. Hoxby

NBER Working Paper No. 15446
Issued in October 2009

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The author thanks David Autor, Christopher Avery, William Bowen, Charles Clotfelter, James Hines, and Harriet Zuckerman for comments that greatly improved this paper and the larger project on which it is based. Much of the work and data-gathering for this paper was supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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