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 … students, and means-tested affirmative action (AA). An AA ban would result in a large migration of minority students out of the …

to rape. With so much information regarding a college's academic and non-academic attributes available to students, how …

to students on the basis both of financial need and academic (and other) merit, with merit influencing not only total …-secondary education, both whether and where they attend are importantly influenced by family background. Among students who score well on …, while only about 75% of those from low SES backgrounds do. High-income students are also more likely to attend private …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …