centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …

This paper examines the implications of college admissions criteria on students' academic and non-academic performance …-academic qualities. Comparing students admitted through each track, we find that DA students fare similarly in terms of academic … performance in university as marginal students admitted through the regular route. However, they are significantly more likely to …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

This paper studies whether universities should select their students only using specialised subject-specific tests or … students' large administrative dataset. My central finding is that, on average, universities with less specialised admission … policies admit a pool of students who obtain a higher final GPA. …

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in … settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a … model that identifies the conditions under which the practice of tracking students by prior achievement increases …

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …