programs' joining the platform led students to start college sooner and raised the share of students who graduated on time. We … students' ranked-ordered applications, on- and off-platform enrollment, and on-time graduation outcomes. When more programs … graduation rates. High-SES students have greater access to off-platform options, and gains from platform expansion are larger for …

This paper considers the decentralized funding of public universities in a federation when students and graduates are …-state and out-of-state students. I develop a model of decentralized decision making which allows me to draw conclusions about … how such a price-discrimination affects welfare and the number of students in a federation. It is shown that local …

tuition coverage to students admitted to one of 33 government-certified high-quality universities known for superior test …. To qualify, students must score in the top 10% of the standardized high school exit exam and have below-median household … partly by high-quality universities improving students' skills, as demonstrated by their performance on Colombia's college …