admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …

This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts …

We evaluate a simple allocation mechanism of students to majors at college entry that was commonly used in universities … in Brazil in the 1990s and 2000s. Students first chose a single major and then took exams that select them in or out of … and is not strategy-proof. This means that some pairs of major & students can be made better off and that students tend to …

under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty on education costs and future returns. Students, applying a learning by … - students' characteristics, abilities and behavior; parental background and family networks; characteristics of the tertiary … resulting from the encompassing analysis is to provide an all-inclusive orientation activity for students, before they enroll at …

Drawing on data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we show that students who select majors that …

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a … state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find … that admissions certainty encourages college-ready low-income students to seek more rigorous universities. Low …

In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …