Smith, Jonathan; Rooney, Patrick; Smith, Jonathan - 2016
to rape. With so much information regarding a college's academic and non-academic attributes available to students, how … do these scandals affect their applications? To investigate, we construct a dataset of scandals at the top 100 U ….S. universities between 2001 and 2013. Scandals with a high level of media coverage significantly reduce applications. For example, a …