The Effect of Course Shutouts on Community College Students: Evidence from Waitlist Cutoffs

We would like to thank Thomas Barrios for his critical work in the early stages of this project. We are also thankful for helpful comments from Joshua Angrist, Charlie Brown, Sue Dynarski, Ed Glaeser, Brian Jacob, Larry Katz, Amanda Pallais, Jeff Smith, Kevin Stange, Lesley Turner, and seminar participants at De Anza Community College, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Sacramento Center, Mathematica, the Association for Education Finance and Policy, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. We are extremely grateful to Mallory Newell, Andrew LaManque, Bob Barr, Howard Irvin, Stephen Fletcher, Lydia Hearn, Kathleen Moberg, Jerry Rosenberg, and Rowena Tomaneng for providing administrative data and detailed information on courses, minority student programs, and registration procedures. Mallory Newell deserves special thanks for also providing detailed comments on an earlier draft of the paper. This research was funded with help from PR/Award R305B150012# by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of any other entity, nor of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• October 16, 2019