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A little followup

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Matthew Yglesias
Feb 21, 2021
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I wanted to do a quick follow up on Thursday’s post about the paucity of kids from poor families at selective colleges. I hadn’t realized this at the time, but a forthcoming paper from Susan Dynarski, CJ Libassi, Katherine Michelmore, and Stephanie Owen reports on a new experiment that seems promising in reducing undermatching.

What they did, basically,…

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