This paper provides an empirical examination of the factors that influence graduate admissions decisions. It exploits a unique, large data set on applications and admissions to 48 leading graduate schools in five disciplines, including economics. The analysis shows that these graduate schools in...

ITV has long been heralded as providing the potential for substantial improvements in the quality, or reductions in the cost, of higher education. Yet there exist no analytical models that would allow a quantitative expression of the extent to which ITV could, in fact, improve educational...