When students receive better grades without any corresponding increase in ability, this is called grade inflation …

We introduce a new mechanism for matching students to schools or universities, denoted Iterative Deferred Acceptance … Mechanism (IDAM), inspired by procedures currently being used to match millions of students to public universities in Brazil and … would accept her given the current set of students choosing that college. Although the induced sequential game has no …

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 …