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 …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

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 …

completion and earnings. These patterns imply that, on average, students benefit from “overmatch” of the sort generated by … move lower ability students to higher quality colleges …

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 …

students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 to identify siblings. We follow the academic career of these …