We study a college admissions problem in which colleges accept students by ranking students’ efforts in entrance exams …. Students’ ability levels affect the cost of their efforts. We solve and compare the equilibria of “centralized college … admissions” (CCA) where students apply to all colleges and “decentralized college admissions” (DCA) where students only apply to …

We study a college admissions problem in which colleges accept students by ranking students' efforts in entrance exams …. Students' ability levels affect the cost of their efforts. We solve and compare equilibria of "centralized college admissions …" (CCA) where students apply to all colleges and "decentralized college admissions" (DCA) where students only apply to one …

2013. Costly mistakes have externalities: they transfer tuition waivers from high- to low-socioeconomic status students …, and increase the number of students attending college. To shed light on the mechanisms underlying mistakes, we exploit a …

This article aims to quantify the degree in which Romanian students’ rights and interests are protected. The authors … by a quantitative research among students within these centres. Through an exploratory empirical research of a … quantitative type, 438 students were interviewed, the results obtained determining the extent in which study programs pursued by …

: students had incentives to game the system. However, after the reforms, almost none of the new rules became strategy‐proof. We …

We develop a model of college assignment as a large contest wherein students with heterogeneous abilities compete for … approximate the outcomes of a game with large, but finite, sets of colleges and students. By incorporating two common families of … cost of competition as the welfare difference between a color-blind admissions contest and the first-best outcome chosen by …

depends substantially on the strength of one's competition. Second, we find evidence of a counter-intuitive role for …

In a lab experiment, we analyze the benefits of increasing competition on auction platforms hosting multiple … auctioneers of a homogeneous good. We find that increasing competition by merging separated individual auctions increases market …