We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are … differentiation in higher education can decrease student effort and skill of medium ability types …

better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges … selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students …

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

The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that … are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students … the financing of higher education for 22 OECD countries for the period of 2000 to 2011. Based on fixed effects estimations …

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 …

different groups of teachers and are found mainly for mobility between schools rather than out of the profession. Teachers react …

Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as … outflows of students show imbalances and such imbalances are expected to increase with mobility. Therefore, we first suggest … mobile students, so that the burden of that financing, usually public, is supported by the host country. Moreover in- and …

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 …

This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While … particular type of higher education. We document that the individuals who attended Teachers' College in Norway during the 1960's …

of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea … is that students drop out of college mainly because they fail to complete the requirements for earning a degree. This … introduces two levels of ability selection that reinforce each other. (i) In college, low ability students typically do not …