We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

information in the quality dimensions mentoring, infrastructure and students' satisfaction than with respect to research …This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a …

? ii) To what extent do schools contribute to their students' academic success? To answer these questions, we model … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We …We find that students infer the quality of a school from its selectivity and past performance on the university …

We examine how students that transfer credit for an introductory-level course from schools of varying quality perform … the percent of students admitted, the faculty-student ratio, listed tuition, the percentage of professors with PhD's and … SAT scores. Students taking introductory courses at higher quality institutions earn higher grades in their intermediate …

? ii) To what extent do schools contribute to their students' academic success? To answer these questions, we model … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We …, controlling for mean reversion bias, we look at each school's value-added.We find that students infer the quality of a school from …

If satisfaction with life (SWL) is used to measure individual wellbeing, the dispersion of its distribution offers a …