which colleges seek to maximize the quality of the educational experience provided to their students. From this model we … deduce predictions about the hierarchy of schools that emerges in equilibrium, the allocation of students by income and … coupled with discounts to more able students that are modest at best …

We study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students' college enrollment … in students' local college options, with White, Hispanic, and rural students having, on average, many fewer nearby … options than their Black, Asian, suburban, and urban peers. We then show that students are sensitive to the distance they must …

students, including freshmen, transfers, undergraduates and graduate students. The model controls for factors other than … indicate that freshman students are more sensitive to changes in tuition than other undergraduate students in general – a one ….29 percent, holding all else constant. Both undergraduate transfer students and graduate students are found to be insensitive to …