of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …

selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students …

transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …

administrative records about high school, college admission, college attendance and tax returns. Students with score just above the … admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … explore the counterfactual college career of not admitted students and the potential mechanisms underlying the estimated …

conditional progression schemes are effective strategies to select high-performing students. Previous work has mainly focused on …

completion and earnings. These patterns imply that, on average, students benefit from “overmatch” of the sort generated by … move lower ability students to higher quality colleges …

This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In … between the countries increase with the income prospects in ROW and the number of international students. Higher stay rates of … foreign students lead to more ambiguous results. In particular, an increase in educational quality can be accompanied by a …