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Students Choosing Colleges : Understanding the Matriculation Decision at a Highly Selective Private Institution
Nurnberg, Peter Scott - 2010
students?3) Which offer of admission does the student accept?This paper addresses question three. Specifically, we offer an … econometric analysis of the matriculation decisions made by students accepted to Williams College, one of the nation's most highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147369
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Gender differences in college applications : evidence from the centralized system in Turkey
Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2012
In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than … preferences for programs and schools on the allocation of students to colleges. Controlling for test score and high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490123
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"Beyond truth‐telling : preference estimation with centralized school choice"
Fack, Gabrielle; Grenet, Julien; He, Yinghua - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412725
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Comparing school choice and college admission mechanisms by their immunity to strategic admissions
Bonkoungou, Somouaoga; Nesterov, Alexander - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197153
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Obvious mistakes in a strategically simple college admissions environment
Shorrer, Ran I.; Sóvágó, Sándor - 2017
2013. Costly mistakes have externalities: they transfer tuition waivers from high- to low-socioeconomic status students …, and increase the number of students attending college. To shed light on the mechanisms underlying mistakes, we exploit a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772987
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Incentives in matching markets : counting and comparing manipulating agents
Bonkoungou, Somouaoga; Nesterov, Alexander - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 18 (2023) 3, pp. 965-991
Manipulability is a threat to the successful design of centralized matching markets. However, in many applications some manipulation is inevitable and the designer wants to compare manipulable mechanisms to select the best among them. We count the number of agents with an incentive to manipulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325249
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University rankings in action? : The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a … information in the quality dimensions mentoring, infrastructure and students' satisfaction than with respect to research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374442
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Does university quality drive international student flows?
Van Bouwel, Linda; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305965
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On the political economy of university admission standards
De Donder, Philippe; Martinez-Mora, Francisco - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302351
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On the political economy of university admission standards
De Donder, Philippe; Martinez-Mora, Francisco - 2015
We study the political determination of the proportion of students attending university when access to higher education … and child's ability leads to a larger university populated by a larger fraction of rich students, in line with the so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528937