This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South … about students that is of common interest to all colleges, lower-ranked colleges can gain in competition with higher …

This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South … about students that is of common interest to all colleges, lower-ranked colleges can gain in competition with higher …

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 …

. As a main motivation for these reforms the policymakers cited strategic flaws of the rules: students had strong … incentives to game the system, which caused dramatic consequences for non-strategic students. However, almost none of the new … manipulate. Simultaneously, the admission to each school became strategy-proof to a larger set of students, making the schools …