Do international university rankings or professional accreditations affect the preferences of exchange students over … Business and Economics (SBE) students’ choices of possible destinations for their compulsory period of study abroad. The unique … institutions across the world among which students can choose. A model is developed and estimated by means of the probit model. The …

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

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

attending a four-year college and lower student debt. The effect is more pronounced for students who receive less financial aid …

rankings, and investigate how such policies can improve students' welfare in a Pareto sense. Pooling affects the equilibrium … allocation of studentso colleges, which hurts some students and benefits others, but also affects the effort students exert. We … admissions in Turkey. We find that a policy that pools a large fraction of the lowest performing students leads to a Pareto …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

,000 former students in their early- to mid-20s. Half of participants assigned to the treatment group were offered the opportunity …

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 …

, grades, and persistence. I estimate that two thirds of the plan's 9.1 point impact on top-decile students' probability of … attending a flagship university was due to information rather than mechanical effects. Students induced to enroll are more … likely to come from low- income high schools, and academically outperform the students that they displace. These effects …

retaining international students. Empirical evidence suggests that concerns about brain drain - that is, the emigration of …, international student mobility can be beneficial for all participants: migrating students and those who remain at home, as well as …