A central authority designs and implements the college admissions process in Turkey. All applicants are required to take an SAT-like test and submit their preferences over the departments. Then, the central authority places the applicants in departments by considering the test scores and stated...

Vor zehn Jahren war Hochschulfundraising in Deutschland noch ein Thema für wenige Hochschulen. Philanthropie als Motiv der privaten Förderung insbesondere staatlicher Hochschulen stellte zu diesem Zeitpunkt eher noch die Ausnahme dar. Mit dem Start des Deutschlandstipendienprogramms änderte...

Participation in university is highly unequal across socio-economic lines globally (UNESCO, 2017). This has led many governments and admission officers to introduce preferential college admissions for disadvantaged students. This report studies the impacts that preferential admissions can have...

We estimate the transmission of higher education across generations using the arrival of the Pinochet dictatorship to Chile in 1973 as natural experiment. Pinochet promoted a large contraction in the number of seats available for new students across all universities. Using census data, we find...