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Recently, President Obama has proposed that the Department of Education start ranking colleges based on “value.” School … particular interest to students, most of whom have made use of some ranking in deciding which school to attend. Many of the …
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We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under different rationality assumptions. There are two types of students and two schools. School of graduation serves as a signal of student productivity to prospective employers. The...
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Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the … top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany. -- College …
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Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the … top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany …
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We study a structural model of college admissions framed as a contest between a continuum of students for enrollment in a continuum of colleges where the contest outcome is decided by the students' choice of human capital (HC). Students have private information about their learning costs, and...
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This paper examines the differences between the subsequent careers of high school and college graduate workers based on a direct role of college graduation with regard to the revelation of workers' individual abilities. Using NLSY79, we document a positive relationship between off-the-job...
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The research, through a bidirectional approach, aims to develop the university management of the degree programs in …-effective management of university programs. …
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This book explores and offers remedies to the culture of political correctness in American higher education. We focus …, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, but not of ideas -- has become the dominant ideology in higher education. The dearth … students’ exposure to different ideas, inhibits the ability of the university to produce thoughtful citizens. The book provides …
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We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under different rationality assumptions. There are two types of students and two schools. School of graduation serves as a signal of student productivity to prospective employers. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315508
of higher education in the region, with a possible spillover to the other region. Therefore each region, through …
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