The paper studies competition for the market in a setting where incumbents (and, to a lesser extent, neighboring …

support the "mismatch" hypothesis that college quality and ability interact in substantively important ways. All students … benefit from attending higher quality colleges. Our estimates imply that resorting students to eliminate mismatch, without … $400 per year. The substantial gains for students who move to higher quality colleges under this reshuffling roughly cancel …

university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank …: improvements in rank raise performance, while decreases in rank have no effect. Rank effects partially operate through students …

policy fails to incentivize students from a disadvantaged socioeconomic background it may lead to a deterioration in the …

In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than … preferences for programs and schools on the allocation of students to colleges. Controlling for test score and high school …