admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … explained by their impact on sorting and not because they allow programs to select more successful students from a given pool of …

We study the political determination of the proportion of students attending university when access to higher education … and child's ability leads to a larger university populated by a larger fraction of rich students, in line with the so …

In this paper, I use survey data from high school students in Texas to examine the magnitude of peer correlation in … individuals with 10 percentage points more classmates with matching college preferences are 3 percentage points more likely to …

Turkey show many pieces of evidence that students construct their lists strategically according to their admission chances … to estimate student preferences by making valid utility comparisons that are supported by data and theory. We show the … our preference estimates suggests that students from low SES households are better off under a student sorting rule only …

? ii) To what extent do schools contribute to their students' academic success? To answer these questions, we model … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We …, controlling for mean reversion bias, we look at each school's value-added.We find that students infer the quality of a school from …