.g. Crawford, 2014), which shows that, amongst students with the same grades on entry to university, those from worse …

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to … schools operate and how they might be made more effective. In this new framework students have a dual role. They are both (a … behavior of students, teachers and administrators depends on the incentives facing them and the actions of the other actors in …

When students receive better grades without any corresponding increase in ability, this is called grade inflation …. Introducing a concern for reputation into an established signalling model of grading, we show that this mechanism reduces or even …

centralized assignment mechanism. Leveraging unique administrative data and an information experiment, we show that students and … rival programs hold payoff-relevant information that each program could use to admit students with higher persistence rates … students to communicate first preferences would leave outcomes unchanged. An alternative model assuming independent private …