selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students …

transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari … University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set … of independent variables contains information on students' personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

scores rightward, moving students into higher quartiles of the state SAT score distribution. Boston's charter high schools …

of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …

administrative records about high school, college admission, college attendance and tax returns. Students with score just above the … admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … explore the counterfactual college career of not admitted students and the potential mechanisms underlying the estimated …

high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …