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 …

students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs …This paper examines the impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC), a statewide college-preparatory curriculum that … that ACT science scores improved by 0.2 points (or roughly 0.04 standard deviations) as a result of the MMC. Students who …

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …

illustrate its application through the case of university students in Scotland and determine the exogeneity of their expenditures … drawing on survey evidence. Students are a particularly useful example as we can analyse the difference in impacts between … individual student groups and how the impacts of students at particular institutions are influenced by the composition of the …