We study a college admissions problem in which colleges accept students by ranking students’ efforts in entrance exams …. Students’ ability levels affect the cost of their efforts. We solve and compare the equilibria of “centralized college … admissions” (CCA) where students apply to all colleges and “decentralized college admissions” (DCA) where students only apply to …

We study a college admissions problem in which colleges accept students by ranking students' efforts in entrance exams …. Students' ability levels affect the cost of their efforts. We solve and compare equilibria of "centralized college admissions …" (CCA) where students apply to all colleges and "decentralized college admissions" (DCA) where students only apply to one …

We analyze a college admissions game with asymmetric information between students and colleges. Students' preferences … for colleges depend on the observable quality of the schools. In contrast, colleges' preferences for students depend on … the latter's abilities, which are private information. Students and schools are matched via a decentralized mechanism in …

We conduct a field experiment with 302 workers of the microcredit company in Russia to study the effects of the … four prizes of different size and compare it to "parallel" contests with the same prizes, but where participants have to … choose the prize prior to the start of the competition and then the winner is selected only among the players who chose the …

2013. Costly mistakes have externalities: they transfer tuition waivers from high- to low-socioeconomic status students …, and increase the number of students attending college. To shed light on the mechanisms underlying mistakes, we exploit a …

provided while students make choices. We consider two variations of IDAM: one in which they are only informed about whether … they are tentatively accepted or not (IDAM-NC) and one in which students are additionally informed at each step of the …

programs; however, they may harm match quality. In a multiple-elicitation experiment conducted in a real-life matching market …

Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college … that the dual-credit advanced algebra course alters students' subsequent high school math course-taking, reducing … effect of the dual-credit math course on overall rates of college enrollment. However, the course induces some students to …

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …

To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and … follow a cohort of tertiary students over six years. Students can commit to following their recommended study program … treatment only reminding students to follow the program structure has limited effects. …