We use rich microeconomic data on performance and choices of students at college entry to study the interaction between … which preferences and expectations of students are identified from data on choices and multiple exam grades. Counterfactuals … timing of choices and exams are shown to increase welfare. Redistribution among students or schools is sizeable in all …

centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …

selective colleges to lower their curricular demands, low-ability students benefit at the expense of medium-ability students … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than … preferences for programs and schools on the allocation of students to colleges. Controlling for test score and high school …