more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The … adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges adopt a less demanding curriculum in order to accommodate the influx … of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of …

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 …

What happens when college students are not able to enroll in the courses they want? We use a natural experiment at … Purdue University in which first-year students are conditionally randomly assigned to oversubscribed courses. Compared to … students who are assigned a requested course, those who are shut out are 40% less likely to ever take the oversubscribed course …

We study the political determination of the proportion of students attending university when access to higher education … and child's ability leads to a larger university populated by a larger fraction of rich students, in line with the so …

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. …

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher … students who can be expected to work abroad after graduation with high probability. This paper analyzes whether and how student …, this points into the direction that the larger the share of foreign students among all students in a country, the more a …

We assume that students can acquire a wage premium, thanks to studies, and form a rational expectation of their future … earnings, which depends on personal ability. Students receive a private, noisy signal of their ability, and universities can … of test scores. Students optimally self-select as a result of pricing only. If capital markets are perfect but …

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees …

effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …