In recent years, there have been a number of high profile scandals on college campuses, ranging from cheating to hazing 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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to understanding of responsibility – specifically exploring responsibility in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper details a research project undertaken in a higher education institute (HEI) in the UK. The research...

Purpose – The purpose of this final paper in the special issue is to extend the critical conversation that has run through this journal about the meaning and practice of responsibility. It will draw together material from the other papers, summarise what is meant by responsibility and offer...

Economists have a limited understanding of how sensitive human capital investment is to information about aptitude or likelihood of success. We shed light on this by estimating if students update their college choices in response to large positive and negative information shocks generated by the...