TY  - JOUR
AB  - Hundreds of colleges have changed their names to signal higher quality. We estimate how this affects college choice and the labor market performance of college graduates. Administrative data show that name-changing colleges enroll higher-aptitude students, with larger effects for attractive-but-misleading name changes and among students with less information. A resume audit study shows that employer callbacks respond to the increased aptitude of recruited students at these colleges. We broaden these results using scraped online text data, survey data, and other administrative data. Our study demonstrates that signals designed to change beliefs can have real, lasting impacts on market outcomes.
AU  - Eble, Alex
AU  - Hu, Feng
DA  - November 2021
DO  - 10.26300/btrm-jt20
PY  - 2021
ST  - (Mis)Information and the Value of College Names
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - (Mis)Information and the Value of College Names
UR  - https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai20-329
ID  - 304
ER  -